A few people asked me to post this Eldritch Anthology comic in full, but it needed a little context, so!
My DM asked me to draw Casimir and his sister Dosia as villains for fun, and -- with my chronic storyteller brain -- I started imagining how that might come to pass or what it might look like.
In the comic below, Tao (the half-orc here) is a cleric of the Morninglord & traveled through Barovia with Casimir a few years prior to this comic. Tao, Casimir, and Borivoj (Borivoj is not pictured here, but you can spot them in some of my other comics) felled Strahd and freed Barovia, and then went on to help other settlements in the area before parting ways.
Casimir and Dosia are both members of the Czarn family, a monarchy that was dethroned and expelled from the country of the same name after their father, Emhyr, was found to be experimenting with dark magic. It's their goal to reclaim their home, and in this instance, they're willing to use any means necessary.
Dosia is Casimir's little sister, who he'll do just about anything for. Casimir, as we've learned throughout the course of our D&D game, is one of the Amber Temple's dark powers incarnate. So, if Dosia wants the throne back... well, she'll get it!
Comic is Tao hearing about the state of Czarn, where he left lil' Casimir and Dosia a while back.
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I tried to make the teens of Borthethood of "Evil" from X-Men Evolution season 1 (with some headcannons) using this picrew:
Toad - Todd - 15 - Not Straight (still figuring shit out)
"I'm a dumb teen boy
I eat sticks and rocks and mud
I don't care about the goverment
And I really need a hug"
Blob - Fred - 17 - non-binary - has dyslexia
"The men up on the news
They try to tell us all that we will lose
But it’s so easy in this blue
Where everything is good.”
Quicksilver - Pietro - Romani and Jewish - 15 - aroace - has ADHD and low empathy - loves his friends a lot and it's very protective specially of his sister
"They said, "All teenagers scare the livin' shit out of me"
They could care less as long as someone'll bleed
So darken your clothes, or strike a violent pose
Maybe they'll leave you alone, but not me"
Avalanche - Lance - 17 - Bissexual - Is the mom of the grouo
So you're still thinking of me
Just like I know you should
I can not give you everything, you know I wish I could
I'm so high at the moment
I'm so caught up in this
Yeah, we're just young, dumb and broke
But we still got love to give
Extra:
Scarlet Witch - Wanda - Romani and Jewish - 15 - Pansexual
I'm just a kid
And life is a nightmare
I'm just a kid
I know that it's not fair
Nobody cares
'Cause I'm alone and the world is having more fun than me tonight
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[I.D.: Yuri from DDLC stands at a podium, holding a piece of paper and squeezing the podium's side; her eyes are hidden in shadow and the background is dark purple. She says, "It... it's called..." The background changes with her words into shades of brown with shapes of landlines as she says, "'Aftermath of a Crimson Eye'."
Yuri looks up as the background changes to a glacial landscape. She is suddenly shaded dramatically, her gaze intense; behind her is an enormous, diamond-shaped red eye with radiating layers of orange, open against the blue sky and landlines. A bit of snow clumps around her podium as though she has indeed brought herself there.
Then Yuri startles, and the background is once more the dull yellow of the Literature Club's classroom. She has her hands clutched to her chest. She says an empty purple speech bubble, and then a sweating speech bubble with "..." inside it.
Sayori, Monika, Natsuki, and The Protagonist are shown to be staring at her, in varying levels of shock; Sayori has her hands balled up by her face, and Natsuki is blushing very visibly despite her blank expression.
Yuri nervously looks away with a hand over her heart from behind the cardboard podium and says, "i..." The Protagonist, from where he is sitting on the floor with the Literature Club, starts clapping with a smile as the three girls with him lean over to watch him (and be visible).
Yuri rushes past the four of them, embarrassed, as they all leap into wild applause. They all turn to face her anyway; Monika fondly standing to clap, Sayori stamping her feet into the ground and waving her fists around, and Natsuki mildly clapping with a deliberately unimpressed smile. End I.D.]
poem!
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ROTTMNT SPOILERS I WONT EVER GET OVER THIS OK LETS GO
so as a fan of tmnt 2003, 2012, the 2007 movie and rise i have a TON of analysis to get off my chest about the dynamic of these turtles in the rise movie. and first off is leo and raph ofc.
first off in the past versions (especially 2007), leo and raph always seem to be going at it because of some “leader/soldier” vibe going on between them. raph never liked being bossed around, leo was always a sensei’s pet, etc. raphael’s anger has a history of being unnecessary, and leonardo’s responses never helped the situation either, he refuses to admit he’s wrong in some cases. see 2007’s rooftop argument, literally the whole thing lol
rise 100% changes this dynamic from the beginning and i LOVE it! first we’ve got no leader leo, just some goofy 14yr old boy who throws out one-liners in the middle of battle (other leos actually do this too, but their overall demeanors are way more, let’s say pensive, having to deal with their brothers’ lives on their shoulders and the responsibility of leader). the statement that rise leo is basically other leos if they had 0 responsibilities is 100% valid.
so in rise we’ve got a leader in raphael! which i honestly thought was a nice take when i first watched the show in 2018, why not give the famous hothead a crack at being leader? only this time he is also the oldest, the strongest, and has actually controlled (or really never had) his temper. there’s a lot of maturity there that we really haven’t seen in other raphs before and i ATE. IT. UP. but, raph is still a teenager, a teenager who cracks under pressure and believes the entire world falls on his shoulders. he became more of a self-declared leader, as the oldest and biggest, and the others had no problem with it. he carries the weight of leader because he feels that he HAS to, he has to own up to all of this responsibility in order to become his own image of an ideal hero, who does good simply because he can. see Pizza Puffs, you know Red Angel Of Preventing Harm? yeah this guy LOVES being needed by people, going on 100% of their missions and all.
we see the more serious side of leadership in raphael near the end of s2. throughout the series, there were noticeable times that the others (normally leo) would step up as a leader, give raph a break, and save the day with some motivation and a wacky plan that ended up working. see Origami Tsunami. however by the end of the series, we see raphael’s breakdown, his fear of failing his family, and it is here when he realizes that he must trust his family the way they trust him, and allow the team to work equally and carry each other.
then immediately after that we get leader leo! if there’s one thing i wish would’ve been handled better, it’s definitely the pacing to get to splinter’s decision to appoint leo as leader. BUT i do get that the rise crew had to work with what they were given, and honestly it could’ve been done worse so no complaints here.
leo and raph (like in every version) are opposites in many ways. rise raph’s mindset pushes him to do good because he can, and he has a desire to be needed by others and help them in any way he can. he is a caring mother-hen to his brothers, who he just wants to be able to take of themselves when needed. see Hot Soup: The Game and Pizza Puffs.
on the other hand, leonardo is most concerned with his image, whether he’s the best at what he does or not, and has a desire for people to want him. this taps into his insecurities shown throughout the series. see Portal Jacked! and Minotaur Maze. even in the movie, he admits to casey that while he thought his brothers needed him, the reality is that he needs his brothers. leonardo constantly tries to prove his worth to himself, to prove that he is a champion among his brothers. this obsession (more so in the movie) leaves him lacking in team cooperation, but like raph, believing that he must do everything himself. but this is the exact moment when the difference between leader raph and leader leo come out, while raph felt a sense of responsibility and duty to carry everything on his own, leo did so simply in order to prove that he could. he shows the confidence in himself to do things the way he wants, but fails to put that into play when it comes to cooperating with his brothers.
one thing that i love about the movie is that raphael’s anger never originated from any form of resentment or hate for his brother for taking his position. raph was noticing a dangerous pattern in leo’s behavior, one that he believed would harm himself and his brothers, and he was solely focused on getting leonardo to understand that he must take responsibility for his actions. it’s a very familial type of anger, one that comes from worry and love. leo’s response was pretty nonchalant, reading a comic book while raph was trying to talk to him and all. this attitude stuck with him until his talk with casey, who criticized him for acting as arrogant as he was, implying that leonardo was nothing like his future self. and then you know what went down, when he had to fight raph, with donnie and mikey captured in the background. seeing his brothers in the state that they were in was his turning point, he realized that being the leader doesn’t make everything about him, but rather makes it more about what he can do to make sure that they all make it home.
by the end of the movie, it’s obvious that leo’s sacrifice wasn’t made in an attempt for glory (see Minotaur Maze). leo spent the entire movie holding that one photo of his family, at the end he was smiling at it, crumpled in his hand, as krang pounded him into the ground. leo knew that his sacrifice meant that his brothers were safe, and at the end of it all, that’s all he wanted.
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