#c: magic sword

[landfilloftrash]

once again; the thoughts strike, and they strike fast.

#my art #graphite scribbles #Les Misérables #Les Mis #Jean Valjean #Inspector Javert #Javert #Valvert #Ft. The Dresden Files #Harry Dresden #Donald Morgan #The Dresden Files Les Mis AU #I’m working on an AU. it’s hell. #I thought too long about a magic au with les mis and then went ''ahaha what if I combined the dresden files with it-- #wait Morgan is LITERALLY just Javert with a big fuckoff sword hold on they GOTTA meet BUT WAIT HE'D BE DEAD BEFORE THEY MEET #well ! can't have that ! I just gotta expand the timeline a bit and add all the characters as creatures and practitioners throughout ! #gotta add the canon TDF stuff too-- that would be badass considering all the shit that happens or that COULD happen at my decree #aaaaannnd this has now become a three century length timeline that I'm planning on writing the entirety of-- F U C K'' /jov #I have a normal amount of thoughts I'm writing down for this AU #IDs in the alt text! #rea rambles in the tags #rea's trash

[artemx746]

Some of ya’ll haven’t read Son of Magic yet and it shows

#pjo #alabaster torrington #percy jackon and the olympians #alabaster c torrington #howard claymore #hecate pjo #son of magic #heroes of olympus #demigod diaries #I saw someone say that hazel used the mist better than children of Hecate #i love hazel but are you really sure she used it better than the boy who could SUMMON A SWORD OUT OF A CARD #Hazel could probably beat Alabaster in a fight but Al is so much better at magic #hazel levesque #house of hades

[tenth-sentence]

With his right hand he drew back his sword for the strongest blow he could give.

"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair" - C. S. Lewis

#book quote #the chronicles of narnia #the silver chair #c s lewis #serpent #magic #rilian #sword #pauline baynes

[nakamurastorrington]

thinking abt my Young Gods AU designs of Ethan and Al again and

Ethan: evidently muscular, armored, has a wicked facial scar, is missing one eye, bodyguard type

Al: decked in flowy fabrics and adornments, delicate and regal, a mage through and through

Also Ethan: carries around a slim, lightweight katana and maybe a few concealed daggers and stars

While Alabaster: is hiding a massive as fuck broadsword in one of his Mistform cards, wields it singlehandedly like a pro even though it’s more than half his height and over a kilogram

#pjo #alabaster torrington #ethan nakamura #alabaster c torrington #young gods au #my headcanons #this is my ‘ethan is short but in a stocky way while al is taller but wiry as hell’ agenda #btw alabaster wielding a broadsword is canon in son of magic #claymore describes it as looking like it weighs a hundred pounds is an exaggeration tho i think #like realistically idt a sword could weigh more than 5kg without weighing its bearer down #which is ofc bad for battle #1-2kg are already hassle enough to carry around for longer than a few mins at a time #but im not a sword expert so dont take my word for it #but yes i enjoy the dissonance of the frailer looking person wielding the bigger weapon and making it look like NOTHING

[movie-titlecards]

The Magic Sword (1962)

My rating: 6/10

I mean, it's no Jack the Giant Killer, but still perfectly good fun.

#The Magic Sword #Bert I. Gordon #Bernard C. Schoenfeld #Basil Rathbone #Estelle Winwood #Gary Lockwood #Youtube

[plasmatonic]

Organization? I hardly know her.

Redid my ita bag. Never really go with a theme for these (I say as twrp and magic sword slowly take over the insert) and it's just a mix of what I like :v

#Ita bag #Enamel pins #Twrp #Magic Sword #Star wars #Mandalorian and clone wars specifically I guess lol #Figuring out which pins to put in and what to cut #Just as stressful as figuring out where to place a sticker #The twrp pins helped start a few convos with folks at tekko and anthrocon last year #So I look forward to running into fellow fans this year c: #Space gremlin things

[unproduciblesmackdown]

wait i forget have i or anyone posited this already. like sure like maybe it’s sort of a tiny / take it or leave it implication that mytho didn’t always have white hair in the first place, and i feel like i had some sense of like a couple theoretical explanations but the only one i can remember is myself going “lol idk the Stress of the fight w/the raven there, especially the seemingly unending part when the story couldn’t progress anymore” but i’ve just also thought like. well tutu’s design has the swannesque Partially White part and it also seems somewhat implied that at least some part of original tutu became literally part of mytho’s heart when she Vanished so what if That event was like and congratulations now your hair is white thanks to having this magical [imbued with essence] moment

#princess tutu #just our white haired anime boy out here can't argue w/that anyways #but if it's like well that might be a New Feature then might as well enjoy pondering theories that seem fun.... #and well i was gonna say ''and surely he was Magical already'' but idk maybe he wasn't maybe he has the similar magic powers Through tutu #but certainly it can be the other way around in what we see i.e. we only see This tutu who uses his heart shard & has powers similar to Him #his Look all seems magic based enough lol like yeah i can just summon my sword i can summon an outfit #just now like look don't think it's a big mystery why he hangs out in his dorm room partially or not at all dressed like #a) sorry is everyone out here forever chilling out fully clothed &/or b) implication [putting on clothes] is an Emotions sort of business #but how abt &/or c) he'd never Been putting on clothes in a regular way before lol like well all my outfit changes have been magical sooo

[lesbopolo]

my fictional lesbians came home today<3

#the jasmine throne #the oleander sword #the burning kingdoms #tasha suri #the unbroken #the faithless #magic of the lost #c l clark #bookblr #lesbian books #sapphic books #fantasy

[elxgantcaptain]

He's practicing his fencing and sword fighting skills. Best in Neverland. Best in the world. He is the best.

#open rp #? #he's known to be the best sword fighter on the ship if it wasnt for magic flight and tricks from the lost boys peter and fairies he would #have killed him by now #>:c

[ascalonianlightbringer]

And Gwen is 80!

To my very great amusement, her previous Character Adventure Guide goals only got her to 79, and the last remaining one for the tier was to kill a bunch of Flame Legion. So my ferocious Ascalonian from the streets of Divinity's Reach ended up getting to 80 by going to Ascalon and slaughtering a bunch of Charr.

Truly, her namesake smiles on her from the Mists. ;)

#she was still using the prayers too so she killed dozens of flame legion with the power of the gods! #the most humiliating possible way for flame legion charr to die tbh #a small human 'mouse' with human-sized swords backed by sudden manifestations of the enemy gods #and blasts of eldritch magic! #:D #t: greetings friend #c: gwen velazquez #c: gwen thackeray did nothing wrong

[j4gm]

SPOILERS!!! REFERENCES AND EASTER EGGS IN F&C ep. 1: FIONNA CAMPBELL

Here's a bunch of stuff I spotted. Feel free to add more.

During the anime girl hero dream Fionna mentions Hans Brinker, a character from a novel which introduced speed skating to the United States.

The BMO style alarm clock has BMO's voice.

The ducks that steal Marshall Lee's money look like one-headed versions of the two-headed duck from the original Adventure Time title sequence.

Cheers is a real sitcom. Simon previously sang its theme song in the episode Simon & Marcy, and now it seems to have manifested in the human AU due to his connection with it.

Fionna says "stop acting crazy" to Cake with the same meter as Marceline said "stop acting crazy" to Ice King in the episode I Remember You.

We all spotted this in the trailer but there's a Magic Man hat in this shot. Magic Man's hat was most recently seen being worn by Betty.

The Betty statue also suggests that Simon's psyche has significant influence over this world. The fountain includes frogs, a symbol of change that was previously also used in Temple of Mars. And Fionna mentions the statue underwent renovation twelve years ago, which is the same amount of time that's passed in the prime universe since Betty's amalgamation with GOLB.

It would seem Mrs. Abadeer runs a vacuum cleaner company as well as being Fionna's landlady. And Queenie runs an accounting business as well as the tour bus.

The stickers on Marshall Lee's guitar case are all references to real life punk rock bands. X-Ray Pex = X-Ray Spex, Daikini Kill = Bikini Kill, PM might be a reference to AM as in the Arctic Monkeys. I'm not sure what Las Crudas and Dark Eyes are references to. Perhaps someone more familiar with punk rock can let me know?

In case you were wondering, the credits confirm that this is human genderswapped Fern. It's a bit more obvious now that we can see all her green clothes and backpack, and given what she said about her dreams being super messed up. I'm not gonna go through the rest of the cameo characters in this episode because most of them are pretty obvious or already got figured out when the trailer dropped. That said, if anyone knows who the bus driver is meant to be please let me know.

The sword in the window of this games shop looks very similar to Fionna's sword from the original comic series.

The latte that Gumball - ahem I mean Gary - makes in this scene features PB's swan.

Okay one more cameo mention because I feel like it might become significant later. This is Ice Queen.

Fionna and Cake are dreaming about their apartment block in the credits of this episode, but it has a roof like the Tree Fort and the same little boat with a telescope and parasol.

Episode 2 to follow!

#adventure time #fionna and cake #easter egg posts

[inmydrcams]

Celes is just the personification of "once I get over my depression it's over for all of you"

#she's a 18 year old top general who can use magic in a world generally without magic #she's good with swords and magic and she can sing #ch; c. chere #( ;; we don't vibe with fanon )

[canyourfavesurvivecastledracula]

Can Percy Jackson survive Castle Dracula?

To cut to the chase: Yes. But the more I think about it, the more I realize that he is *insanely* well prepared for this encounter.

First off, Dracula did not invite young Mr. Jackson to the castle. Percy took a wrong turn and stumbled in there by accident while on some other quest to recover a magic doodad or stop the evil whatsit, because that's what he does! (I love that the PJO books really take the "greek adventurer wanders around and has unconnected adventures" structure to heart.) But once he's in there, Dracula is delighted to take him in as a guest--canonically, halfbloods smell delicious to monsters. Taste delicious too. Percy is exactly the kind of snack he'd get excited about.

Fortunately, Percy would be on his guard pretty much immediately. The whole "monster pretends to be a gracious host and then tries to imprison and eat you" stunt gets pulled on him about every other week. Plus he's armed with a celestial bronze sword, which is specially forged to vaporize monsters. I dunno that Dracula would follow greek myth monster rules and vaporize per se, but I think it's reasonable that Riptide would be an effective weapon against him. And crucially, Dracula can't take it it away from Percy, since it is enchanted to always reappear in his pocket no matter how it gets lost. (And extremely useful trait for an ADHD teen that I wish my belongings had.)

But it gets better. Let's go into the specifics:

The Crucifix: Percy would accept it. He's used to receiving seemingly nonsensical gifts from people that save his life later at crucial moments. Plus he knows that gods and supernatural beings are real, even though he's not christian-religious, I think he would recognize the woman's sincerity in her belief that it would protect him.

Shaving: He's too young to shave! No confrontation here.

Going exploring: He 100% would. Percy never follows directions when someone says "don't go there." I could list at least 10 examples right now of him wandering off when he's explicitly told to stay put.

The Girlies: Percy has been known get distracted by hypnosis by female monsters before, but he's pretty good at snapping out of it. I think he's likely to clock 'em as enemies pretty quickly and get his sword out, at which point he should be able to fend them off.

Climbing the wall: One of the standard training activities at Camp Halfblood is a rock wall that undergoes earthquakes and pours lava on you. I think he'll be fine.

Wolves: Small beans compared to other monsters he's fought. Plus, Percy has an empathy link with his satyr friend Grover that allows them to communicate through dreams, especially when one of them is distress. If Percy is stuck at the castle long enough, then I think by the time he gets to facing the wolves there would have been enough time for Grover to get the memo and come help him--and Grover can talk to animals! So there's a good chance he can just talk the wolves down and not even have to fight them.

But I don't think it would come that. No, I think the biggest issue Percy would face is that he would force a confrontation with Dracula MUCH soon, probably within the first few days of entering the castle. Percy isn't particularly polite, and he has a bad habit of talking back and picking fights with powerful supernatural entities that already want to whoop his ass. (He picks a fight with the God of War as an eleven year old, and that's how the series starts.) Add that to the fact that he'll already be on high alert for monsters, and I think he'll be in a flat out combat with Dracula before the roasted chicken has cooled on his plate.

Fortunately, Percy is quite the accomplished swordsman. As mentioned, I think celestial bronze would be an effective weapon against Dracula. Unfortunately, Percy won't have access to one of his biggest advantages--water! Being a son of Poseidon would be very useful given vampires' aversion to running water, but I don't think there are any sources close enough to the castle for him to call on. In extreme situations, Percy does have an Ultimate he can use to call forth the sea from within his own body, but it wipes him out pretty thoroughly, and if he used that I think he would be at risk of dying in the woods after unless his friends showed up to get him somewhere safe. But even without water powers, I think Percy would put up a very good fight against Dracula and have a good chance of making it out alive.

...there's one more wildcard which might get played in his favor, which is that the greek gods love jumping in on his quests at the last minute with some divine intervention. So even if things go south fighting Dracula, I could see some kind of literal deus ex machina showing up at the last moment to give him the last push to victory.

So yeah. Castle Dracula would end up being just one more pesky side quest. XD

Aw man I was actually going to answer this one. Buuuuut I've had all week and I didn't so I can't complain.

N.B. I have not yet seen the new TV series, so hereinafter we will be talking about the books.

I think you're absolutely right about Percy stumbling haplessly into Castle Dracula, which is a bummer because it robs us of the Calèche ride, which is our only real opportunity to have Percy use his Poseidon powers by talking to the horses. I want to see Dracula's horses chatting with each other about the fresh meat, being nervous about the wolves, changing their tone in a truly disturbing way as Dracula calms them ... and Percy sitting in the back listening in like "I'm in Danger 🙃." He may not speak Romanian, but he might well be adequately warned by the horses.

One place where I am going to disagree with you a bit is the Celestial Bronze. Monster in this setting is a technical term - a species, really. Dracula is not a Monster in the Greek Mythology sense - he's just a guy. A human born to human parents who then got upgraded. So Percy's sword isn't going to turn him to sand and return him to Tartarus, because he is fundamentally not a creature of Tartarus. Now, does Dracula count as human for Celestial Bronze purposes? Will Riptide pass harmlessly through him? Maybe not. Maybe it's still at least a long sharp piece of metal and can be weilded as such. (Of course, if he goes after Dracula at night, it'll still pass harmlessly through him, but for unrelated reasons).

I agree that he will clock the Girlies as enemies immediately - as you say, this kind of thing happens to him all the time. I am less confident than you are that he could simply snap out of a trance, something that happens neither in the novel Dracula nor, to my recollection, in the PJO books. Usually iirc he is rescued from hypnosis via some sort of outside influence - much as Jonathan is woken by the baying of dogs the second time the Girlies come after him. I feel like Percy would give us some self-effacing narration to the effect of "now you're probably thinking - why did you just lie there!? You know they're vampires! And you'd right, because I was thinking that too! But for some reason I just couldn't seem to move. Man, I hate being hypnotized." That said, attacking something that can dissolve into moonlight with a sword is a good way to get dead, so it's just as well.

I agree that he will be able to manage the wall, and yeah, once he gets outside the castle, he's a good candidate for divine intervention or just another wacky encounter. He's so good at being rescued and/or nursed back to health by things. And the more I think about it, the more the wolves being organized by Grover as a rescue is exactly the kind of thing they would pull. "Oh no, I'm being ripped apart by woooooolves~~~"

Despite his battle reflex and excellent skills, I'm not convinced Percy could best Dracula in a direct fight, but he might be able to match him well enough to fall or jump out the window and escape. Alternatively, do Percy's demigod powers let him control Dracula while in mistform?? If so, Dracula will NOT be pleases.

As for general pugnaciousness, I dunno. He does pick fights with Ares but I don't know that he'd start something with an extremely scary dude whose house he is trapped on - unless he's deliberately trying to provoke him for some advantage. He does go in for the "get the other guy so angry it makes them stupid" approach quite a lot. But I don't know if he's try that on Dracula. He might well go for the "keep your head down and try not to get murdered" approach.

Percy's Fatal Flaw (tm) is his devotion to his friends, but since they're not here that's unlikely to be a problem. His ordinary flaw is that he's stupid (affectionate) - but again that might work to his advantage here. Because he is genuinely very stupid, no one ever expects him to be clever, and he's clever enough to lean into that. If he can play dumb and keep his anger in check, he might well last long enough to escape. And as you say, Dracula has an interest in keeping him around, because he smells delicious.

So on I guess precisely opposite reasoning, Perseus "Percy" Jackson, half-blood son of Poseidon, can survive Castle Dracula

#percy jackson #pjo #avatars and demigods #children

[comicaurora]

#polls

[shearlin]

Hot take about Sky angst, regarding the curse of Demise, because I haven't seen anyone talking about this possibility in all those years I've been in LU fandom.

Guys...

Sky has no idea about the curse

Because think about it. Why would he know about it?

My man has been electrocuted multiple times, with magical - basically divine - lightnings in attempt to defeat Demise. All the while fighting for his life with a literal GOD OF EVIL, after spending an entire afternoon fighting an army of monsters and a Demon Lord/creepy ass Sword Spirit. Not even mentioning how worried sick he must have been that entire time, if this time he was also too late too save Zelda.

(always too late too slow not enough and late late late)

I don't know about you, but I don't think he was in any state of body or mind to listen to some dudes last words, when he had to focus on not passing out because he has to make sure Zelda/Sun is alright.

(It got a bit long so rest of the rant under the cut)

Fi gave him clear, that Demise received a mortal blow and that now it's only a matter of time until he dies and that was all Sky needed to stop paying any attention.

Just go through the motions. His vision is blurry, but that's alright just stay awake. Fi chimes to rise his sword. He does. There is some black smoke suddenly surrounding him, but Fi get's rid of it with her light so it's fine. It's probably why she asked him to rise her skyward. The last fifteen minutes he's been following her directions nearly blindly anyway, because his mind is still foggy, he's not sure where he is or what he is doing he just have to get to Zelda.

And then she's there. And everything is fine.

Impa fades, Fi sleeps and he finally rests. Or rather crashes as the exhaustion finally catches up to him.

But he recovers, as best as he can, and live on.

And then eight other heroes, just like him, appear and take him on a quest across the time. They become friends. Then brothers. Soon he feels like they knew each other their entire lives and can't imagine how he can move on after the inevitable goodbyes.

He is so happy that no matter what, there will always be someone among his people, someone from or even outside of Hyrule, to stand up against evil, no matter how many times it will try to show it's ugly face. He's a bit bummed that there even is a need for a hero to show up, but hey! He is not so naive to think people are and always will be only good. Things happen. Some people are just terrible, and some take it out on the entire world.

But somewhere along the line, he starts to notice... something weird.

They all fought that same guy (some of them even multiple times!) called Ganon or Ganondorf. And while he is overjoyed that none of them even heard the name of Demise, he feels kind of singled out. Few of them mentioned an idea of reincarnation. Mentioning Zeldas' connection through blood of the Goddess and their connection through a spirit.

A spirit of a hero.

He always though it was a figure of speech. A way to describe someone courageous who fulfills the quota of being a hero.

But it's not about a spirit of a hero.

No.

It's the Spirit of the Hero.

His Spirit.

An idea begins to form. A distant memory he didn't even knew he had. Maybe nightmares about that fateful fight starting to get clearer by night. Maybe he spends some time talking to Fi and he does not like the feeling he gets from her chimes, even if she can't really talk in her slumber. Maybe he even prays to Hylia in some distant era in an unfamiliar place, so she can deny or confirm his suspicions.

Goddesses, please, may he be wrong.

Because he loves them all like a family. Because they are family. Because he has seen their haunted expressions and blank eyes, he has heard their stories and horrors they went through and nearly all of them were so young, too young, and the thought that he was the direct cause of it-

Sky had no idea that Demise trapped his spirit in a cycle of reincarnation. He had no time to process it or find coping mechanisms before the adventure with the chain happened. He found out during it, slowly putting it together and coming apart at the seems before their eyes.

Sky didn't know about the curse.

And I say, it could be really interesting to watch Sky fall.

(And if anyone knows a fic exploring this idea please let me know! I searched but couldn't find any)

#linked universe #linkeduniverse #lu headcanons #linked universe headcanons #lu sky #linked universe sky #some curse of demise rant because I have thoughts #I love sky I promise #I just also happen lo love angst #and sky angst #having a traumatizing moment burn into his memory and haunt his every waking moment is all cool and dandy #but think about the slow realization before it finally hits #my rants

[brennan-lee-mother]

I just found maybe the best lining up of events ever and perhaps even proof the Bulb is real:

I was rewatching the third episode of ACOC (as one does) where we have our first real interactions with Commander Grissini and at one point he says aloud the name Payment Day. For those not in the know, in Calorem it is believed that if one speaks the name of a weapon they are doomed to be slain by it. This is why all the Taste Buds' weapons have both a name and a title (e.g. Payment Day and The King's Sword, Flickerish and The Twizzling blade, Sour Scratch and The Puckering Bow, &c.), so that one might refer to a weapon without saying its name. I was immediately scandalised, of course. Doesn't Grissini know better? And to the king's face too! But then suddenly I had a thought. Could it be that the universe had lined up perfectly? That it found a way to bring the rules and magic of Calorem into our world to bring about the most beautiful of coincidences? That once again Brennan proved himself king of (accidental) foreshadowing? I race to investigate and lo and behold, in episode 17 "For Candia (part 2)", Commander Grissini is killed by King Amethar with The King's Sword, Payment Day.

All hail the Bulb

#this is the best day of my life #does anyone think this is as cool as i do??? #acoc lore go brrrr #i love coincidences like this so much #they give me life #acoc #a crown of candy #king amethar #amethar rocks #commander grissini #mera speaks #d20 #dimension 20 #dropout #brennan lee mulligan #bleem