#darksight

[sidyashchiy-na-plakhe]

But if you close your eyeeees, this is almost feels like nothing changed at all~

Most unpopular opinion in wof fandom: Sunstalker is the most criminally underrated ship. You have no idea how funny their dynamic is.

#wof #wings of fire #драконья сага #digital art #wof meme #wof nightwing #wof moon #wof icewing #wof hybrid #wof moonwatcher #wof winter #wof qibli #wof darkstalker #wof clearsight #wof sunstreak #wof beetlewing #wof sandwing #qinter #winterwather #darksight #moonbli #sunstalker #? #yeah

[secretly-a-catamount]

It genuinely frustrates me when people ship character’s with their abuser.

Particularly when the character’s entire storyline is about escaping an abusive relationship.

Particularly when the abusive relationship was founded on grooming.

Particular when the ship only exists because the reader thinks the abuser is hot, and is using the protagonist as a self-insert.

I don’t attack people over what they ship, I never have and I never will, you can ship those kind of fictional ships if you want, no, seriously, go ahead, I won’t stop or judge you, but I am asking you to be aware. Be aware that they’re unhealthy. Be aware that the ship you like was never going to be “endgame” by the author. Be aware that you have no right to bully or belittle anyone who doesn’t ship what you ship, particularly if it’s abusive. Just be aware. That’s all.

#phantom of the opera #the phantom of the opera #christine daaé #christine x erik #the phantom #erik #erik phantom #the grisha #the grisha trilogy #the grisha series #the grishaverse #shadow and bone #the darkling #alina #darklina #pjo #pjo tv show #annabeth chase #luke castellan #lukabeth #legends: darkstalker #darkstalker #clearsight #clearstalker #darksight

[some-pers0n]

I think one of the biggest red flags every (or a general sign of illiteracy) is when people say something like "how they wished Darkstalker and Clearsight could've worked out in the end." Sweetie, the entire point of their relationship was that it was horrible from the start. Did it seriously take you until Darkstalker started killing dragons and talking about taking over the world to think that maybe it wasn't a good relationship? Even before the earring and all, he was still pretty possessive and controlling. Their entire relationship was Clearsight basically trying to avoid the extremely obvious futures where Darkstalker turned out to be a genocidal maniac. She was holding out for the idealized version of Darkstalker. That was the dragon she loved the most.

It was never good. It was an abusive relationship. Trying to deny it is pretty much ignoring the entire point. A tragedy in all sense of the word, with Clearsight trying so, so hard to avoid the inevitability that was Darkstalker's fate.

#wof #wings of fire #SP-rambles #clearsight wof #darkstalker wof #darksight #This was originally gonna be on the wof confessions blog but eh #I'm not too much of a coward to post this here

[belovedisaster]

clearsights weird dream

#wings of fire #wof #clearsight #darkstalker #clearstalker #darksight #frank art #I #PETERED OUT ON EFFORT SO BAD TOWARDS THE NED #BC I HATE COMICS AND IM REALLY TIRED #BUT I LIKE THIS

[shiftywing]

darkstalker (wings of fire: legends) 2016 summarized

#wof #wings of fire #wof memes #wings of fire memes #darkstalker #clearsight #darksight

[landofspaceandrainbows]

So, I got somewhat inspired by @dcartcorner 's drawings, especially there reset: elsewhere AU, and also all of their many artworks centered around the "evil old men" group, Elias, Simon, etc. So this is a bit of fluff, particularly coming from thinkin' about this painting.

AO3 Link

Just a note, this is mostly fluff:

~

Elias looked down at his gifts and thought.

Peter had been taking far too many lessons from Maxwell. Too many. Whenever Elias had a gallery show or a library event, any sort of fundraiser really, Maxwell always tried to keep in touch and send some present, and this was no different. Always some piece of jewelry, black beaded and fillagreed, sitting sweet and innocent in it’s box with a card saying “for your love of knowlege.” And the pendant would sit in it’s jewelry box all innocent, an open eye, but as soon as he went to put it on, the eye would swing closed with gravity. Cufflinks, bracelets, it was the same every time.

(Really, this was no different, with the pendant of polished warm rose gold with a fringe of jet, jet and pale glass beads worked into the chain.)

And here was a little cardboard box from Peter, A lovely scarf, silkscreen printed with a crisp pattern of eyes, but of course they were tiny, so a few steps away and it just looked like a swathe of near to white fog to wrap around his neck. The scarf was broad, though silky, and it spread back out again when he let go of it with his fist. The card: “To reveal what is beautiful and conceal what is not.”

Elias 's eye squinted under his glasses and he whispered "Note: is Maxwell's humor catching?"

But if it was contagious, he knew to keep looking. And there was the second box from both of them, Max and Peter. And the little round tins of tea and coffee, only slightly chilled in the indoor air, made up for a lot.

And of course, the card had a little "to be continued" pointing towards the back. "Kidding, this hides what only Simon and Peter should see."

~

(anyway, hope everyone is having a nice season!)

#lonelyeyes #darkskies #darksight #elias bouchard #peter lukas #drabble #drabbles #tumblr people #other people's art #holidays #academia #fluff #the magnus archives #tma

[stylinson-spagghetti]

darkstalker legends is so castles crumbling coded i do not believe i need to elaborate

#taylor swift #swifties #music #wings of fire #darkstalker wof #wof clearsight #wof headcanon #wof fandom #legends #castles crumbling #speak now taylor’s version #darksight #darkstalker x clearsight #tragedy

[rypnami]

“is this what falling in love feels like..?”

i made a post earlier today and tagged it fathigo and it brought my love for them back. i thought the hyperfixation was over but let me tell you, it is back with a VENGEANCE.

#art #digital art #my art #dragon #dragon art #wings of fire #seawing #wings of fire art #fathom #prince fathom #indigo #darkstalkter #clearsight #darksight

[coldfrontoficeandsky]

My part for Werewolf900′s Requiem Clearsight, Fathom, and Whiteout MAP. As far as I know, this project is going to be unfinished, but who knows? I’d love to see it come back finished one day. But, I’m still proud of the work I did. Designs are by CougarCoast.

#wings of fire #clearsight #sunstreak #darkstalker #darksight #sunsight #wings of fire map #beetlewing #beetlewings #nightwing #nightwings #icewing #icewings #wof hybrid #dragons

[impaladin]

haven’t been in the wof fandom for a while but clearsight x darkstalker enjoyers are you aware of this song? it’s Their song it’s fucking perfect you have no idea

#Spotify #wings of fire #darkstalker #clearsight #clearstalker #darksight

[wings-of-fire-confessions]

ultimate ship confession lets go (well not really but here's what i think):

cleril: isn't in a great place right now, but it has potential to be good. i like them a little more platonically. people need to stop ignoring peril's character development omg.

glorybringer: i'm too tired to care at this point. this has been debated to death. 

blacier: it's kind of cute (well, the fandom version is; canon is more toxic and that's less of my thing. good for you if you like that though). no strong opinions.

jamapple: POSSIBLY ONE OF MY FAVORITE SHIPS 💖💖💖💖 they got their spotlight in OND BOOK and that's all they needed to win me over. the flashback to them snuggling in the hammock????? MY HEARTTTTT 💕💕💕💕💞

mastermind x chameleon: i have seen this shipped maybe twice. and i can't get it out of my head. it's just so interesting to me.

winter x kinkajou: wait...... maybe? a part of me thinks they could be cute, but most of me says pass.

ripnami: somewhat has potential; is currently very boring and questionable. i'm not against tsunami having a love interest, but i'm loosing faith in riptide. riptide i KNOW you can become interesting please do literally anything before you bore me to death.

lunatail: they're adorable together!!! obsessed with them omg. people need to talk about them more (for my sake).

clearsight x sunstreak: no opinions; seems fine. i feel like most of the people who hate this ship hate it because they wanted clearsight and darkstalker to get together. which. 🤨

moonbli: it's just okay. a little cute, slightly bland. could get better as they develop their relationship.

quinter: i normally love these types of dynamics, but i'm not interested in quinter? no idea why. i guess like them more platonically.

sunnyflight: uhhh no. don't like this one. i think sunny kindly shutting starflight down and him being okay with that is very refreshing.

whiteout x thoughtful: i feel like people forget about them a lot..... and i can see why. i really think it's cute how they're both artists, but they just don't have much momentum.

glacier x boa: i find this one is more compelling than blacier. glacier crying when she heard boa's backstory... girl me too.

smolder x thorn: i started to appreciate this one so much more when i read smolder's section in the guidebook. that man was a sopping wet disaster. hope they're happy together. i really like them.

sunnyspeaker: seems very cute! no strong opinions. i'd feel a little bad for starflight lmao.

mangrove x orchid: 💖💖💖💖💖💖 I LOVE THEM AND I NEED TO KNOW HOW THEY'RE DOING.

anemone x tamarin: anemone SERIOUSLY needs a good influence, so i think tamarin would be good for her. i'm very curious and i want to see their relationship develop.

winterwatcher: ehhhhhh. i can see the vision, but the vision isn't for me.

scarlet x burn: no. love LOOSES 🔥🔥🔥 the only love for burn is BLOODSHED.

starspeaker: it's cute. that's it. idk. i used to not like them together, but now i think they're fine.

sunlow: 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖 THEMMMM!!!! the flashback to their first meeting had me giggling and kicking my feet.

darksight: no. their relationship was very interesting and complex and well written, but from a shipping standpoint??? no way in HELL.

kinkajou x moon: it's cute! no strong opinions. stuck between whether i would like them more as friends or lovers.

clearsight x listener: fun to entertain, but i like them better as friends. if clearsight stayed on pyrrhia, listener would've turned her into a wine mom and they would gossip.

lynxfall: no strong opinions. they're both gay as hell and seem right for each other, but i'm just not really interested. again, no idea why.

anemone x pike: i DO like the bodyguard trope... but anemone x tamarin has more potential in my eyes.

blicket: kind of a guilty pleasure for me....... YES it was rushed but they're really cute this each other. luna imagining that wedding tapestry of them...... melting my heart.

umber x qibli: sounds cute. i like the idea of umber crushing on qibli and then finding someone else though.

turtlejou: meh. has a little potential, but is mostly boring to me. i appreciate how kinkajou was honest with turtle about her feelings at the end.

blister x morrowseer: idk. if they were married i think they would try to poison kill each other 24/7.

carnelian x moon: ehhhh, not for me. i don't like it that much. maybe because carnelian is kind of an eh character to me (SORRYYY i know a lot of you guys are carnelian girlies).

fathom x indigo: glad they got a happy ending. wish we got to see them interact a liiiiiiiiitle more, but i like them.

pertle: no. they're besties and you can't change my mind.

snowfall x sky: thought about this one for a while...... but..... ehhhhhhhhhhhhh...... no.

coral x blister: no.

jambringer: again, very fun to entertain; i can see the vision. but i can't abandon the jamapple ship 😤

arcticslayer: probably one of the most realistic relationships in the book. very conflicted about them. i think they were more attracted to the ideas of each other. maybe.

ok i KNOW there's more ships but i'm cutting it off here because this is getting long. also i haven't read the winglets so idk what's going on over there.

if you're hurt by my opinions and want to rage over them, you're a baby. ship whatever you want (so long as it's not really really weird); i do NOT care.

.

#wings of fire confessions #wof confessions #wof #wings of fire #shipping

[callahan-okeefe]

Blood slowly began to sink into the velvet sheets. His body growing as cold as the night breeze that bellowed through the open window. Soft curtains and drapes lap at Riake's form as she stood still, taking in the sight of her lastest mission.

He honestly deserved it. The cruel stories she heard and horrible acts he's done already brought a nasty shiver down her spine. He deserved it.

He deserved to bleed in his expensive sheets, ruining them with his tainted blood. He deserved it.

...

A nagging feeling pulled at her gut. A tell to leave, a sign to esapce while she could. Yet a part of her -her heart- kept her still, kept her hooves in the soft rugs even as she heard faint echoes from the hall.

The echos got closer, approaching the door in large strides. The handle jostled for a moment, the creaking of hinging causing her ears to twitch. And yet, she stood still, hands dripping with blood as she waited for....something.

*Callahan pushed open his lordship's door, dreading whatever he had been summoned for this time. When summoned to the lord's quarters, it always spelled misery for the tiefling. The things he did for his line of work.*

*Entering the room, Callahan noticed first the smell of blood. Then the pitch black state of the room, shrouded in darkness, then a figure in the dark, so drenched in blood he couldn't distinguish them from the blood of the now clearly deceased lord.*

"My lord? You summoned me?" *He called out in the fake voice he had been using for months now. He didn't want the stranger to know of his darksight lest they deem him a threat.*

"My lord, is something wrong? Do you wish for me to return later?"

[secretly-a-catamount]

Clearsight and Darkstalker were both immortalized after their “deaths” in ways that they both would have hated.

Darkstalker, who wanted desperately to be the savior: seen as the devil, the demon in the dark, the bogeyman.

Clearsight, who wanted nothing more than a normal life: seen as a goddess, worshiped and revered for something that sometimes seemed more a curse than a blessing.

#wings of fire #wof #darkstalker legends #darkstalker #clearsight #clearstalker #darksight

[ghostfvcker]

WALK SOFTLY IN SHADOWS ρƚ ιʋ - ϝҽαɾ ιƚʂҽʅϝ

"I felt it touch me I swear to all the Gods above I felt it touch me last night--" "...I've been leaving the window open at night. I know father forbids candles after dark but I will burn this whole bloody house to the ground if it means I do not have to sit in the dark for another night." "I've studied everything I can get my bloody hands on and nothing describes what the hells it is that lurks in my wardrobe. Not a wraith, a ghost, a devil, a demon, an abberation-- this thing should NOT FUCKING EXIST--" "there are uncharted regions of the underdark, so dark not even the drow will approach. places so dark even the darksighted can't see. there. THERE. that is where this fiend comes from. it has to be. IT HAS TO BE." - exerpts from looseleaf pages found under tasya's bed. a scientific journal of some kind, perhaps.

.psd template made by @aqualvng, found here.

#baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate oc #baldur's gate tav #oc: tasya giffard van olso

[belovedisaster]

What are some like darkstalker apologist arguments or narratives that piss you off the most?

well heres the thing. and ive wanted to elaborate so i thank you for asking. i dont fully disagree with darkstalker apologism nor do i fully agree with the opinion that he's a horrific monster. i think it's a much larger overarching problem for everyone of just not being able to put nuance into one's opinion on him and take ideas from both camps.

i want to say i think an even larger root to this is: tui is just not a very good writer. i absolutely love legends as much as the next guy, but if you look you can tell where and when her personal opinions fill in plot elements subconsciously. like, darkstalker coming from a bad home, having interracial parents (directly connected) being abused, and having a "savant" kind of mental trait, to put it as close as possible to real world ethics, speaks to the kind of people tui sees as "doomed to be evil from birth".

i havent read legends in a while. but i do remember that was a motif. the narrative tool of the nightwing powers of prophecy and predestination making it so that, within the story, him literally, from the moment he hatches and has his first thoughts, is really fated to be a villain, and that's like a canon fact because of how timelines and predictions work..it's kind of fucked. That, and clearsight; being a sympathetic hero, who, under the conditions, could have done better, but on paper, to the rational mind just kind of being a shitty coloniser at the end who didnt treat darkstalker the best.

like you see what i'm getting at? darkstalker is hard to engage with on a Very deep level because he's just. not very deep. and his writer is a flop with a lot of prejudices that leak into the way she thinks of stories, and some things may not be a fault Or a point of sympathy but just a shoddy piece of writing.

with that in mind. ive stated before i try to take as rational a stand as possible on darkstalker and clearsight. i try to pepper in a little sympathy and condemnation. i think darkstalker is obviously the villain and at the end of the day, a manipulative genocidal murderer who destroyed thousands of lives...who got drunk off power he had from birth, who, in a stressful abusive home was inclined to become more violent, powerful, and impulsive to protect his family from arctic, which turned to protecting the nightwings from the icewings.. which turned to making himself a godking under the delusion that it was all for the greater good.

i think clearsight is obviously the victim, and she couldnt have done a whole lot better under her own circumstances.. her powers turned her into a very obscure kind of terrible person whose fixation on controlling the future (encouraged by her job under the queen) turned into a kind of, thinking she was not only welcome to but that she should be responsible to control absolutely everyone around her. she was already so through the stages of grief that early on when darkstalker did bad things she just kind of swept them under the rug. more and more things judt passed by. and darkstalker did not make it easy for her to try and fix him.

its not realistic at all to say clearsight should have been a beautiful perfect partner who therapied darkstalker out of all his problems, AND its not realistic to say although darkstalker had a bad start he should have picked himself up by the bootstraps and never done any of that. its pointless to debate how one or the other could have fixed it... EMBRACE THAT THE DOOM WAS INESCAPABLE! they MADE EACHOTHER WORSE! they are not a romance, they are a horror story of how knowing everything, trying to be accountable and put a leash on everything in your life, will make it so so so much worse!!!! their environments their conditions and their powers led to this.

as much as ive stated i dont like that it coincides with an "evil from birth" narrative, the themes of Darksight just being an inescapable, unstoppable doom– no matter what, no matter what clearsight tried to do to get him to be better or control the timelines, or what darkstalker did to try to get clearsight to relax and live in the moment, no matter what fathom could have ever done or said –it was all just going to happen this way anyway. their meeting is literally The Beginning Of The End.

tl;dr and conclusion: the darkstalker apologism dilemma and the darksight debate is settled by the fact you dont need to be an extremist. you dont need to think darkstalker was a true pitiful sorrowful angel with a heart of gold and the REAL villain was clearsight (cough cough...cough cough.) and (but i respect this one more, and some people just dont like him, for EXTREMELY RATIONAL REASONS) you dont have to slam him fully as a totally morally evil death villain, and then go on a tirade of just distorting and rejecting any evidence against your idea into the earth, while hailing to high heaven any and all evidence that supports it. jist chill come frolic in a field. darkstalker was a fucked up kid who did bad things, clearsigjt was a fucked up kid who did bad things, lets get you an orange

#wings of fire #wof #Someone asks me about darkstalker and i become an unskippable cutscene #darkstalker #clearsight #if you read through this WHY i love you. #idlove to discuss this btw just dont bring bad faith interpretations on here..i hate to have fandom debate one way or the other so lets #do it with dignity

[shiftywing]

rereading darkstalker is so weird because fanon darksight is portrayed as some big tragedy where these soulmates were ripped apart by fate or whatever...then you get to the book & darkstalker's threatening clearsight that he's going to force her to stay & be in love with him if she tries to leave. like. okay

#hate that take where people act like clearsight wasn't the victim in that relationship #they're mutually unhealthy for each other but darkstalker took it to a much higher level #wof #wings of fire #darkstalker #clearsight