#he's a cartoon summoned into reality

[firedragon1321]

Authors/artists- is this you?

#writing #writing memes #ocs #beck #he literally is 6 feet and i always think of him when i see this meme #he's a cartoon summoned into reality #this could canonically happen #fall in a hole idiot (affectionate) #meme #my art

[pennamesmith]

Daimar the Demon

Orko is bored, so he summons a demon from the Dark Dimension to hang out with (hey, it looked cute in the picture). But Daimar’s very presence warps reality, and he is destined to grow into a massive beast that will conquer the world! Fortunately, destiny on Eternia is more of a choose-your-own-adventure type deal.

Episode Highlights:

Let’s be 80s barbarian cartoon heroes together.

Skeletor takes some Evil Data.

Me and that gay shit :)

I genuinely love the resolution of this episode. Despite his terrifying power, Daimar is essentially still a child, and ultimately chooses to help the friends who were kind to him rather than destroy or conquer anything. It’s both sweet and inspiring. Anyway, are we gonna talk about how Orko is besties with the King of the Dark Dimension now?

Rainbows over Grayskull!

Moral: If you have a problem, tell somebody.

#until next time! #motu #he man #orko #daimar #masters of the universe #cartoons #smith watches cartoons #80s he man #daimar the demon

[puffy-fluffy272]

Okro headcanons?

Yes! Definitely! After hearing Orko laugh in the original MOTU show, I wanted to see him get tickled! Alrighty! Here's some headcanons for our favorite Trollan wizard!

Orko is ticklish on his belly, under his arms, ribs, feet, and yes, even his cute ears!

Orko's ears are ridiculously sensitive and will twitch with just one little touch. Once you start to tickle them, they will wiggle so much and might even tickle you back! While the outside of the ears are quite sensitive, the slits that lead to the insides of his ears are ultra sensitive!

Orko's laughter is very high-pitched and squeaky! Just listen to him laugh in the 80s cartoon. It's adorable! His laughter increases in pitch and squeakiness if you get him on his ears or belly.

Okro is definitely the person who enjoys being tickled a lot. Sure, he'd say for you to stop, but in reality, he loves it! When he has had his fill, he will put his hands on your arm as a way to tell you to stop. He'd possibly return the tickles as well.

Orko would make a great ler! He always wiggles his fingers when using his magic, and that can be used as teases for certain people. He has little claws on his fingers, so those would definitely tickle you! He can also use his ears since they wiggles around a lot. He would abuse those tickles teases especially with his cute voice, to get you even more flustered! Since he is a mage, he would summon feathers, use his magic, or spawn other tools to tickle you with.

#tickle fluff #he man tickles #motu tickles #lee!orko #ler!orko #sfw tickle blog #sfw tickling community #fluff #tickling #t word community #tickle headcanons #t word blog #t word #t word content #tickle community #tickle #tickle hcs #tickle blog

[wonderfulworldofmichaelford]

Psycho Analysis: Bill Cipher

(WARNING! This analysis contains SPOILERS!)

Gravity Falls is one of the greatest cartoons of the 2010s, a fantastic mystery series filled with weird and mysterious monsters. And among those monsters is a bizarre interdimensional demonic triangle with a top hat who sounds like the dude who made Twin Peaks. How much weirder can you ge than that?

Bill Cipher started off as a one-shot monster of the week summoned up by season 1’s reoccurring antagonist Gideon, but considering how he appears so much in symbols throughout the show and just how fun and striking the guy is, he was upgraded to the overarching villain of the whole show, responsible for many of the mysteries and the conflict of the grand finale. So what made this evil Dorito so much cooler than the psychic incel voiced by the dude who made The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack? Read on and maybe I’ll have an answer.

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Motivation/Goals: Bill is the archetypical trickster and deal-making devil we’ve seen across the ages in fiction, promising wealth, power, and knowledge to suckers in return for furthering his goals. And what are his goals, you might ask? Fuck if I know. Bill seems to relish in pure and utter chaos with no rhyme or reason, his true motives beyond “Call in my friends and fuck around with reality” being beyond my puny mortal understanding. Frankly, it’s really refreshing to see a Disney villain who simply relishes in bringing about the apocalypse for shits and giggles, especially when the classic Disney villain was dying out around the time this show was airing in favor of twist villains like Hans and that Zootopia sheep.

Performance: After being shot down by David Lynch, Alex Hirsch decided to jumo in and voice Bill in a “bad” David Lynch impression. Bad is in quotations because the impression is quite frankly pretty spot on, and much like Lynch himself it adds a sort of surreal ridiculousness to Bill. Hirsch really is the MVP of the show he created, and Bill is one of his best performances in it, though I hesitate to call him better than Grunkle Stan.

Final Fate: The best Disney villains get the very best deaths, and Bill has one of the best of them all. After falling for a ruse between Stanford and Stanley and slipping into the latter’s mind as its being erased, Bill pitifully begs Grunkle Stan for his life. In a move that would make Captain Falcon proud, Stan responds by fucking punching Bill out of existence. FUCK. YEAH.

Bill ends the series as nothing more than a statue. Probably. His final secret backwards message does imply he may return someday...

Best Episodes: The “Weirdmageddon” finale is definitely Bill’s finest hour, but I’ve gotta say “Sock Opera” is a standout as well, as Bill takes over Dipper’s body for his own goals. It hits even harder if you read the real-life version of the Journal, which has Bill pretty blatantly say he was going to make Dipper commit suicide. Jesus Christ.

Final Thoughts & Score: Bill is easily the most impressive Disney villain in recent memory.

Recent Disney movies have seemed content in either making the antagonizing force of a movie a nebulous force like generational trauma, or otherwise have a really bad twist villain. The last time we had an honest to god Disney villain was Tamatoa, who gets a single scene in Moana before vanishing from the film. We just haven’t been getting the sort of high quality antagonists we had back in the 90s anymore.

Bill, though? Bill is just about everything you could want from a villain. He’s funny when he needs to be, he’s terrifying when he needs to be, he wields insane magical power, and most importantly, he absolutely relishes in how much of an evil lunatic he is. He’s like if Kefka was made by David Lynch, and was also a triangle. It’s just beautiful.

I think what makes Bill so great is just the sheer simplicity of the character, from his design to his motivations. It’s very much what you see is what you get with him; he just loves chaos, and he wants to spread it even if it means blowing up the world. He’ll fuck over anyone to get what he wants, and nothing is too low for him to achieve his goals. Villains like this can be very fun to watch if they’re written well, and Bill is written exceptionally well. Every episode with him in it is easily one of the best episodes of the show; even his debut episode, which some have argued is his weakest appearance, is still one of the single best episode’s of the first season. He’s just that damn good.

Bill Cipher gets a 10/10, which isn’t particularly shocking; he might be the best thing Alex Hirsch created for the show after all. If Disney never makes a good villain again and just sticks to generational trauma or awful twist villains, well, at least they’ll always have Bill. 

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#Psycho Analysis #Bill Cipher #Alex Hirsch #Gravity Falls

[twin-chains]

The Adventures of Legend

This poor guy has been through so many adventures, two of which I recently added to his backstory unfortunately. He certainly lives up to his title with all the experience he has.

I originally had it so that Legend came back after Link’s Awakening for a fifth adventure based loosely on the CDI games and cartoon. In that adventure, I had Myth fall in love with a guy from Gamelon and would later marry and have a child with him (who would go on to be Moon in Ancient Stone Tablets). However, I ended up moving that to being Legend’s second adventure to give Myth enough time to have a child old enough for participating in AST since AST occurs six years after Legend’s last adventure in the Dream timeline. It wouldn’t have made sense for Myth to obtain a husband and 9-10 year old child in the span of 6 years leading up to AST.

So now, Legend’s unnamed adventure right after Link’s Awakening is a simple quest to kill some monsters invading Hyrule in the Reality timeline. In the Dream timeline though, since Legend ends up staying in Koholint, he doesn’t end up going on that sixth adventure. In his absence, Myth uses the wand of Gamelon once more to temporarily seal the monsters away and prays Legend returns soon to permanently defeat them. He never does due to living in the dream world, and the monsters break free six years later and triggers Star and Sun being summoned to Hyrule for AST.

Myth’s daughter Moon is around the same age as Star and Sun this way, allowing her to be the main Princess Zelda in BS TLOZ which occurs six more years later. (Also Star and Sun end up having two princess Zeldas just like Fay, one of whom they share with Legend which I think is neat)

Hopefully this way, all the ages and years match up now:

A Link to the Past: Legend (15), Myth (19)

CDI: Legend (almost 17), Myth (21) falls in love with a guy from Gamelon

Oracle of Seasons: Legend (19), Myth (23) gets married right before Legend leaves

Myth (24) gives birth to her daughter Moon, Legend (20) adores his niece and hopes to find love and raise a family of his own one day

Oracle of Ages: Legend (almost 21), Myth (25), Moon (1)

Link’s Awakening: Legend (21) fell in love but was devastated, Myth (25), Moon (2)

Unnamed 6th adventure: Legend (22 in the Reality timeline), Myth (26), Moon (3)

Ancient Stone Tablets: Myth (32), Moon (9)

BS The Legend of Zelda: Myth (38), Moon (15)

#I’ll go into depth about the CDI adventure later #the age conundrums gave me a headache #tc legend #zelda cdi #bs the legend of zelda #ancient stone tablets #loz #yes having these specific ages down will be plot relevant #and isn’t just jace being particular and overly perfectionist

[the-smiling-critters]

Silence dances around the air for a moment... before walking can be heard, coming closer to Catnap's- no... they are not here for the little moonlight, they are here for Theodore, finally, after the pieces have fallen in place, and the truth revealed.

For it is the Stranger who approaches... the one who promised Freedom, instead of Joy.

They have avoided the child, unwilling to face them, for risk of their plans being halted... but the talk of what could be, talk about this Stranger, this 𐌂ዐ𐌍ር𐌄የ𐌕, has come forth... and so they are here, as if summoned by mystic acts. Those who Know of them have appeared, and attempted to converse with the child that lies within the little moon's shell, to convince them of what they have seen, what they have Know.

The Stranger however... they are here now, and with a plan. Talk of them dances through the air... They may not be Known to Theo or the little moon, their influence here thin, realities will keeping them in check... but this talk of them, of what this Stranger is, they can feel it within their essence, their being... just this once, with their Truth being spoken, they may act not as a Stranger... but as 𐌓ዐ𐌔ነ𐌉፪𐌉ረ𐌉ፕ𐌙.

The Stranger sits in front of the young moon... and the child that lies aware inside. The Stranger's form shifting from moment to moment, for a second the Truth of the Stranger leaking from the shadows that hide it, but soon smothered before understanding could be reached.

Little Moon... I am sorry that I ran from you before. I apologies for making you upset, but your condition and desires eluded me then... but now I am aware for what truly is going on here. I am aware of him.

The Stranger's gaze shifts ever so slightly... and at once you know that their eyes lay upon Theo, not the one who surrounds him.

Theodore Grambell... so this is how you exist here now. How have to become this way, where two minds lie within your warped form? Does the Moon know of you? Do you not care for them? What of the little Moon when you ask your shared body to act upon that Hour...

The Stranger's gaze becomes sharper, as if Theo, and Theo alone, is being cut by shards of broken glass.

No... I must know first- Is the little Moon a part of you, or something new born from your broken soul? Answer me now Theodore Grambell, and speak only TRUTH.

Of..him? I'm sorry, I don't know who you're talking about!

(again, adding a read more) - Moon

Honestly, no clue. He thinks I'm missing, which just makes the whole Hour plan easier..? And if you're asking if I care for those critters, no not exactly. I'd only care if they went through the same thing i did. Until I "Fully die", I'm stuck just floating around.

For now, he's still in that lil cartoon form. I hear the scientists are planning something though...Might want to keep an eye on that Red Smoke though!

#ask the smiling critters #Theo/Catnap answers.

[cf56]

How does Yakko celebrate Dot and Wakko’s birthdays?

Sorry for taking a bit to get to this one, this is my first free day in a few weeks.

This is a fun question, and I'll also take it as an opportunity to talk about the Warners' birthdays in general.

The Warners' canonical, in-universe birthday, the day they were drawn and came to life, is March 2nd, 1929. How do we know this? In the 65th Anniversary Special episode of the original series, the Warners' in-universe creator, Lon Borax, says that they were drawn at "exactly 2:43 AM on the morning of February 30th." Of course, February 30th isn't a real day in any year, and 1929 was not a leap year, so it also didn't have a February 29th. So I take "February 30th" to mean "March 2nd." Can we really trust the crazy man's recollection of dates? Well, for one, he's very specific. For two, he went crazy during the process of creating the Warner siblings, so my theory is he started on February 28th and simply kept counting up from there as he lost his sanity, forgetting that the month was supposed to turn over.

However, the Warners never seem to acknowledge this date. They do celebrate their birthdays, but they each have a separate, unique birthday, despite all being born on the same day in reality. There are two possible reasons for this:

When creating them, Lon Borax assigned individual birthdays to each of them in their fictional backstories. The problem with this is that the Warners don't seem to have any fictional backstory. Their memory starts on the day they jumped off the page, and they only ever remember and talk about the memories they have in the real world, not anything that may have happened to them in a prior fake backstory. When they came off the page, all they seemed to have was their base appearance and personalities. Why would an insane man like Borax get any deeper than that, anyway?

This is the one I think is both more likely and sweeter. The Warners, despite knowing they were all born on the same day, each chose individual birthdates so that they can each celebrate their special days. How did they choose these birthdays? There's no way to know. We don't even know what days they are. I would say, most likely, they just chose whatever days they liked the best. Or perhaps they celebrate their birthdays three days in a row around March 2. Seems like the sort of thing they'd like to do.

Now, to get onto your question. There is one canonical Warner birthday celebration shown in the cartoons that I know of:

As we can see, they absolutely deck out the tower in order to make Wakko feel special on his birthday. I think this would be more of a Yakko and Dot thing, not just Yakko setting it up. Knowing how close the Warners are, Wakko might even have helped set this up as well. I assume the tower gets just as decorated for Dot's birthday. Yakko would discourage it for his, or at least not bring it up, but Wakko and Dot would do it anyway.

On Wakko's birthday, the Warners are shown playing hide and seek with each other, and nothing else. Just playing games with each other is all they really want. They don't need anything special, no huge gestures, no jaw-dropping presents.

So what do I think Yakko does for his siblings' birthdays? Whatever they want. Usually it's him planning out the day and deciding what the group will do, but on Wakko and Dot's birthdays, they get to decide. And Wakko, as we see, probably just chooses to play some simple games all day with his sibs. Dot might choose something more extravagant.

Wakko would get a huge cake with a flavor of his choosing, and sometimes that flavor is very odd. Yakko does it anyway. Dot would probably want something more elegant, like a colorful designer cake with exquisite flavors. Her birthday is the only time Wakko deliberately forces himself to hold off and not eat it all in one bite (though he still gets most of it).

Presents are hard. What do you give to a toon that can already summon almost anything they want? Socks, apparently.

I imagine Wakko would get a lot of foodstuffs, like candy, and maybe parts for his gizmos. Here is a sample of things he asks for for Christmas, and I think his birthday wishes would be similar:

Dot would maybe get clothes and fashion items, and books to read. I think Yakko is the one coordinating most of these materialistic presents, like how my mom would buy birthday presents for my cousins' birthday parties and throw my name on there even if I had little to do with the selection or purchase of the item.

But, again, the Warners don't really have a big need or perhaps even desire for materialistic things- they prefer KNAWLEDGE. Kidding. I think their main presents to each other, the ones they really care about, are more personal and performative in nature. Yakko might write a song in his siblings' honor. Wakko might build something for Dot. They show their appreciation for each other mainly through actions, like the aforementioned game of hide and seek.

Boiling it all down to one statement- Yakko just wants his siblings to be happy, and that's especially true on their birthdays. He will do anything it takes to make their day feel special. All the bells and whistles, anything any kid could want for their birthdays, he gives to them. Maybe he has to work extra to earn the money to do so, and maybe he has to resort to more shady measures, but he gets it done. And his siblings help. In a world where so few outsiders are willing to do the same thing for them, the Warners have to do it for each other, twofold. And the big thing is, it doesn't even matter. The Warners know how much they love and care about each other. Having a big birthday celebration or not, it doesn't change that. But they do it anyway, because that's just how much they care.

It doesn't look like it's happening next season, but I would love to see a birthday-focused episode in the reboot. Either one for Dot, where her siblings absolutely pamper and celebrate her, or one for Yakko, where his siblings repay all the things he does for them.

Bonus, unrelated cute image- Wakko using a tiny little stepstool to reach the peephole on the tower door:

#animaniacs #yakko warner #wakko warner #dot warner #the warner siblings #animaniacs headcanon #answered ask #cfposts

[bracketsoffear]

I should've submitted Spy from TF2 for Stranger bracket because of his disguises, dang it. Also Agent 47, because in order to assisinate targets he disguises himself as any man regardless of age, race, appearance, or mannerisms, and practically nobody can see through it until it's too late. Anyway, here's some of my submissions that didn't make the cut: Dark

Shambler (Darkest Dungeon): From TV Tropes: “A primeval nightmare summoned from the darkest recesses of the unknown, a star-spawned horror, an infinite malignity of the stars that inhabits the Void between Worlds that was never meant to be seen […] lurks in the shadows, waiting until all forms of light are extinguished so that it can enter the world to hunt its prey and feed its spawn […] The creature itself is bathed in shadow, and coloured like the night itself […] The implication is that it's been hunting the party the entire time but can only come out when there's no light […] constantly delivers endless stress damage on the heroes by simply existing […] Much of the Flavor Text surrounding it talks about how humanity has always feared the dark and offers the suggestion that this thing is the reason for that fear”.

Nightwielder (The Reckoners Trilogy): controls black “mist” with enough strength that he can keep the entire city of Newcago (post-apocalypse Chicago) shrouded in permanent darkness. Weak to sunlight.

The Pony of Shadows (MLP:FIM): primordial darkness incarnate who wants to consumer the whole world in eternal dark--not night so much as pitch black void. Tempted Stygian into offering himself up as a host to the darkness. Manus (Dark Souls): corrupted all of Oolacile and Artorias, created the Abyss—the unchecked form of Humanity (Darkness), uses Abyss magic. Darkstalker Kaathe (Dark Souls): tries to tempt the Chosen Undead into bringing about the Age of Dark.

Stranger I already detailed in another post. Spiral

Pinkie Pie (MLP:FIM): regularly breaks the laws of physics, biology, and reality by operating on cartoon logic in a way that is fundamentally alien to the rest of her world. Feeling Pinkie Keen is an entire episode of Twilight being driven to madness because there is no logical explanation for how Pinkie Sense works, and yet it clearly DOES work, so there MUST be an explanation, but there ISN’T, and it makes no SENSE. Alternate form called Chaos Princess Pinkie Pie, who is only 20% more chaotic than Pinkie Pie usually is (https://antifandom.com/mlp-gameloft/wiki/Chaos_Princess_Pinkie_Pie). The only being besides Discord who can control Discord’s Chaos magic, but only for a few seconds before it drives her crazy. Has magic similar in nature to that of unicorns, as shown in School Raze Part 2, even though she is an Earth Pony. Her sheer batshit weirdness allows her to play ten instruments at once (including a harmonica) WITHOUT HER MOUTH. What the fresh fuck is up with this pony.

Lucretia (The Adventure Zone): Uses the Voidfish to erase the memories of her friends and gives them fake ones; this accidentally results in her massively fucking up their personalities by erasing critical parts of themselves, especially especially Davenport--his entire life was wrapped up in the mission she wiped his memories of, so his identity was practically annihilated and he was only able to say his own name. She also uses the Voidfish to wipe the memories of the entire world so they'll forget the Relic Wars; consequently, people can't even perceive words related to what she's erased as anything more than static. She does even more deception by creating a fake second moon that acts as her base of operations. Tinky (Hatchetfield): His shtick seems specifically to be driving people into incoherent madness by tangling them up in a Timey-Wimey Ball until their perception of reality no longer makes sense. His whole goal is to screw with people’s minds and trap them in The Bastard's Box: a permanent, neverending mindfuck ("a twisting, endless maze") for those trapped inside it, where the souls of those whose lives he’s turned into unresolvable Time Paradoxes are trapped forever. A single glimpse inside the Bastard's Box — or a moment of hearing the screams of those lost inside — is enough to completely break a human being's mind, as shown when he breaks Ted’s mind and turns him into the Homeless Man. He then haunts the Homeless Man for fifteen years to keep him from regaining his sanity.

Micolash (Bloodborne): Leader of the School of Mensis, who sought to make contact with the Great Old Ones through unethical science; they technically succeeded, but their efforts caused the "stillbirth" of their brains. The item description of the Mensis Cage he and his followers wear says that "The cage is a device that restrains the will of the self, allowing one to see the profane world for what it is. It also serves as an antenna that facilitates contact with the Great Ones of the dream. But to an observer, the iron cage appears to be precisely what delivered them to their harrowing nightmare." He now resides in the Nightmare of Mensis, a twisted dream realm full of "countless statues that resemble human bodies melded together, and eyes that are sticking to every surface inside the buildings." He is the "Host of the Nightmare," implying he is master of this realm, and it shows in the twisting corridors he leads the player running through on a circular goose chase during his boss fight. He revels in his madness, as shown by his voice lines, and doesn’t want to wake up from the nightmare he created. He and his followers also summoned and chained up the Brain of Mensis, which induces Frenzy (a status condition that causes damage apparently from causing physically harmful levels of madness) just by looking at the player.

Shabriri (Elden Ring): "The most reviled man in all history" of the Lands Between, who has been serving the Frenzied Flame by preaching chaos and retribution long enough that "It is said that the sickness of the flame of frenzy began with [him]." The Frenzied Flame is a god associated with madness that apparently wants to return the world to primordial chaos by killing everyone; its associated Incantations induce the Madness status effect, it drives those who fall victim to its influence insane, and it is associated with Body Surfing--Shabriri hops between corpses, and there's a questline about an apparently dead character coming back and seeking to become its servant, apparently to lead the player to its prison. Shabriri himself encourages the player to become Lord of the Frenzied Flame and engulf the world in chaos.

And Slaughter is also another not!character propaganda post. Looking forward to the Hunt bracket!

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#not!character propaganda #asks #dark poll #spiral poll

[themetalvirus]

ngl its kind of annoying to me that three of the most overpowered characters in sonic (including sonic himself) are hedgehogs. out-of-universe it's for branding/marketing purposes, but in-universe it implies that somehow hedgehogs are more prone to developing powers than other mobians? ik shadow is a test tube baby but silver being a hedgehog instead of a mink just makes a Pattern. also amy can summon infinite hammers but that's more of a cartoon thing. sorry amy i don't want to minimize your reality breaking super strength hammer powers but they arent framed in the same way as silver's powers

i know WHY they didnt make silver a mink, i think it's better that he's a hedgehog, but there's always that "but what if he was a mink tho :(". theres so many what ifs with the sonic series on so many levels

edit: to clarify i think shadow and sonic should always be hedgehogs but i SORT OF wish silver stayed a mink. KINDA

#exoticbutterstxt

[kari-go]

Well, I have an idea for Lady Fox power up. Strangly, it's coming from "Who framed Roger rabbit?!" (The book/comics version) so the idea is, that is a word, where "cartoons" and humans live togethet. How about for Fox🦊x Ladybug🐞 the power "Cartoon phisycs" and user can temporary, for a really, really short time(s) band reality like a cartoon could, like whank others on the head with speach bubble, or creating tempral cones if they run up and down😅....

As for Cat🐈‍⬛ and Fox🦊 the reverse, he can cause cartoony destruction, summoning bombs, mallets and such or picking up holes and repositioning it😅

Or maybe one of the powers could be "SPOILER!"

(more likely for cat) to leap of the picture and read further in the story, if the fox aleeady comnected to visuals😅)

Hmmm, maybe those would fit unicorn+fox more since the unicorn interacts with its surroundings, while the ladybug creates them. The fox is also in the unicorn's domain.

Maybe it could be a solid ilussion (that makes no sense). Or an illusion that can affect the senses even after the illusion is gone.

#ask #miraculous ladybug #miraculous disaster au #kwamis #unification #fox miraculous #ladybug miraculous #unicorn miraculous

[icedfairy]

So you want to stab Angels : RPG setting ideas

One of the very poorly served areas of RPGs is the evil / anti-hero campaign.  Most of the time you get to stab angels it's either because they've been brainwashed or you're running the most cartoon cliche edgy nonsense campaign someone could dream up.

And so this section of the campaign setting is designed to allow people to play all the necromancers, plague shamans, and other evil characters without having to join fantasy nazis or eat babies.  Similarly it can have conflicts between two groups that each feel what they're doing is good, and perhaps even go deeper.  But at the base level the design is to let people be dark while still having at least some morality.

And stab angels.

The Setting : (previous  works)

The Solar's Betrayal :

When the Demon Lord was summoned from the Abyss and used the unique features of this planet to ascend to godhood, there were a lot of people looking for ways to stop his hordes.  One nation, Ysild, considered the obvious.  Summon an angel.  And so the greatest spellcasters were gathered and they opened a gate to call through a Solar.

The Solar arrived and immediately saw the danger presented, not just to this world, but to the multiverse.  If the forces of the Abyss could raise their Lords to true godhood, unbound by the usual restrictions, they could win the Blood War and unite evil against the Heavens.  And so he immediately reached out to the local gods to organize a defense.

However, to his horror, he discovered that the gods not only were skewed towards neutrality, but they were unwilling to accept the need to serve good to defend all reality.  Even the good gods insisted the world needed to stay the same, only changing at the fickle desires of races made to embrace conflict!

And so with a heavy heart the Solar had to take control himself, acquiring Godhood and giving his greatest servitors demigod status.  From the lands he claimed as his own he began his crusade.

But the local gods weren't going to accept that.  They resisted his attempts to grow his power, confining him just as they did the Demonic forces!  Now he works with both diplomacy, cunning, and military might to claim control over this land, for the good of all.

Good as an enemy :

This is going to be a tightrope no matter how you slice it.  The antagonists in this setting are good.  Lawful, but GOOD.  Mistakes are the exception, not the norm.  It's hard to claim a moral ground when objectively the world would be a better place if everyone just let the angels take charge.

It is very very tempting to make Good aligned villains go 'too far.'  Have them kill innocents or commit atrocities.  Again this should be the exception, not the rule, and those people that indulge in those excesses will be prosecuted by their own side as much as the PCs and their allies!

Instead you want to personally challenge the PCs.  It's a Good act to punish everyone who creates undead and summons devils harshly.  But if your PCs have necromancers and devil summoners as friends they're going to look poorly on those laws.  Similarly it's a Good thing to send your armies to defeat the demons.  But if they're marching through your lands, isn't it your right to refuse entry?

Yeah sure the angels are embodiment of all that is good, and they really do want the best for everyone, but you're at war with their nation, your people have been at war with them for a thousand years, and you're gonna be burning down that town built on stolen land.  Thanks.

#iced world #iced stuff #rpg

[journeytothewestresearch]

Sun Wukong vs The Mask

I was on reddit and recently saw this thread where someone asked who would win in a fight between the titular trickster gods. I've never read the comics, only seen the movie. But The Mask's list of powers from Wikipedia (if accurate) point to him being quite powerful:

Reality warping

Elasticity

Whirligigikinesis (what the hell is this?!)

Duplication

Infinite Super-Speed

Energy projection

Time, matter and energy manipulation and creation

Psionic abilities such as telekinesis, telepathy, astral projection, and precognition

Immortality (except removing the Mask)

Invulnerability (except removing the Mask)

Levitation

Self-sustenance

Size manipulation

Nigh-Omniscience at the loss of sanity, inhibitions, and self-control, except for those who still have self-control despite the loss of the two above.

Summoning

Enhanced super strength, endurance, reflexes, agility and stamina

Creation of vortices

Interdimensional travel and time travel

Power mimicry/replication

Transfiguration

Multilingualism

Cosmic awareness

Trickery

High intelligence

Psychometry

Granting desires at the loss of the moral center except for those who have a good heart.

In comics and cartoon only:

Shapeshifting (can appear as any person)

In other media only:

Cartoon physics

Sun Wukong is weak to reality warpers, as evidenced by his failed bet with the Buddha to leap from his hand. But I think there's a big difference between the abilities of a fully enlightened being and a mischievous god. I'd love to hear how others, especially those with knowledge of the comics, think the fight would go down. Personally, and I admit my bias upfront, I don't think The Mask could do anything to actually hurt Monkey, only annoy or hinder him for some time.

Someone on the reddit thread pointed out that The Mask would only be effective until sunrise. Is this true to the comics? If so, it's important to point out that, during his rebellion in the original story, Monkey singlehandedly beats up the "Nine Luminaries" (Ch: Jiuyao, 九曜; Sanskrit: Navagraha), anthropomorphic deities from South Asian astrology representing the sun, moon, and planets. [1] So all he would have to do is order the sun to come out. I could see Wukong screaming "Yo" and whistling with his fingers in his mouth, and then the sun would quickly answer the call.

Note:

Specifically Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Rahu, and Ketu. The latter two are shadowy planetary bodies representing the respective southern (descending) and northern (ascending) lunar nodes, or points where the moon crosses the earth’s orbit around the sun. 

#Sun Wukong #Monkey King #The Mask #Journey to the West #JTTW #Lego Monkie Kid #comics #comic books #who would win

[babblish]

Under the Wave

Fandom: Tales of Arcadia (Cartoons)   Rating: Mature   Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships/Characters: Morgana, Nari, Bellroc, Skrael, Original Characters Theme: Origin Story (Wizards Non-Compliant), Explorations of Identity, Gender, Magic, Recovery, and Divinity

Chapter 26; A Familiar Recipe Morgana readies her plan to bring about the birth of a new type of polymorph troll but experiences some doubts along the way as she considers the realities of both trollish and human worlds.

Morgana poured out a solitary drop of essence from the spirit she had rendered, the pool changing to a radiating yellow, bathing everything in a golden light as if it were the captive sun. She continued her incantations, louder, forceful, as she channelled her knowledge and magic into the pool, everything of Nith, of Elanī, pouring her soul into the liquid in the hope she did not fail, in the hope she was not about to kill again.

She knelt down and held her hand over the fluid, feeling the magic radiating as if it wanted to burn the flesh from her bones. “Summon the whelp,” she said.

They all waited patiently, wordlessly, for the troll to descend down the obscene number of steps until Slornir made their way to the bottom, bundle in their arms, a vigilant goblin over each shoulder, and the king looming over them from behind.

Morgana took the child, determined not to quake at the weight of them. They were not the turquoise whelp she had witnessed hatch, instead a grey marble babe as Blörbo. They were older than the turquoise whelp, but by the looks of things, not by much. They looked at her with big golden eyes and growled in warning.

“You’re a fighter,” Morgana said as they wriggled against her grip. “That’s good, we need you to fight with everything you have.”

Maulgark approached them, and butted the whelp gently on the forehead. He then turned to Morgana and nodded sternly. “Do it.”

Morgana smiled at the whelp, and approached the edge of the pool. It was hard to keep a grip of the babe as it wriggled, and she let it fall into the fluid as they shrieked in shock, flailing for a moment before sinking beneath the surface like a rock. She swallowed her bile, the burning eyes of the trolls behind her, and continued her incantations, watching the waters begin to churn, froth and boil, an inky damning black.

Morgana repeated her final incantation and stopped. The waters still and sharp as obsidian. There was silence, as if not one of them dared to breath, and then the king put a heavy hand over Morgana’s shoulder, pressing down, pressing her to buckle.

“What now?” Maulgark asked gruffly.

Morgana exhaled and forced herself to smile behind her golden headdress. “Now we wait.”

— Ties in with Primordial Awakenings, Primordial Awakenings - Deleted Scenes, Under the Sun, and the rest of The Heart of Janus au.

#tales of arcadia #trollhunters #toa morgana #my fic #under the wave #heart of janus au #another action packed chapter #and by action packed I mean a series of regrettable live choices

[firedragon1321]

OC General Thread

So I’m gonna post a bunch of OCs for your consideration. I will sort them by the universe they’re from.

This may get very “do you love the color of the sky” in length so click the Read More if you’re interested. Also most of these are tagged by character name on my blog.

As of 2024, I'm experimenting with pronouns on profiles. I use "male/female" as shorthand for "cisgender" (mostly so I don't have to change 5+ years worth of documents). Nonbinary and trans characters with pronouns in their profiles will not use these terms.

Notes for triggers- "mention" means I don't go into detail and it's text only. If you don't see that word, it means the art or description will go in-depth on the trigger. Stay safe!

TOON-IVERSE SAGA

This is my main universe. Below is the professional description for those unsatisfied with “Kingdom Hearts meets Pibby meets suspiciously wealthy fujoshis and deviantArt users”.

“Welcome to a world where the boundary between reality and fantasy is malleable, and cartoon characters walk alongside real people. From anime to edutainment to stop motion, any character- or “toon” - one can think of lives in this world. Summoned from their cartoons to reality by the mysterious dragon Shenlong, these toons struggle with the ups and downs of daily life. They are considered to be less than animals by real people, with few options in life but rumors of a hidden utopia.

In their quest to reach this utopia- or simply to survive- toons must be careful,. Enemies lurk in the shadows, willing to bring all of toon-kind under their rule. They must watch out for the demons, which can transform toons into loyal thralls in the blink of an eye! The demons share a shaky alliance with the factories- institutions run by real people with the aim of turning toons into slaves. Though these two factions do not represent the general public, they have enough power to threaten the freedom of toons.

But things cannot stay this way forever. In the year 2002, a toon named Soren appears in this world. A friendship is forged, a quest is begun, and the wheels of change are set into motion.”

Soren: My favorite OC ever.

Soren (tummy alt): Chubby tummy.

Soren (weapon, TW: blood, knife, child with a weapon): He has a KNIFE!

Old Version + Reference (TW, blood) https://firedragon1321.tumblr.com/post/701139716258578432/let-me-see-what-you-have-a-knife-no-just

Soren (alternate hairstyles): Because playing with his hair is fun

Soren (squinting): Bright light!

Soren (dress): This is legit key to the plot.

Soren (flashbacks, TW: parental abuse): Babies!

Beck: The story’s deuteragonist

Locky: Autistic computer nerd

Zeus (TW: gaslighting mention): The angy boy

TOON-IVERSE SAGA (GENDERBEND AU)

The same as the above universe, only all the dudes are girls and vise versa.

Sorrel: Soren hates that this exists

TOON-IVERSE SAGA (NON-CANON)

Random AUs and BS with Toon-iverse Saga characters.

Beck (Bunbun, Pibby reference): Bunbun Beck!

ZUNRU

An original monster project similar to Pokemon or Digimon. The protagonist is an autistic character written by an autistic author. Here's a longer description if you want-

“Humans share the world with Zunru. People can thank these magical creatures for the dawn of civilization. Zunru are responsible for building homes, providing food, and offering companionship. People who own Zunru are called 'Tamers'. With a Zu You Co.-approved Zunru Band, they can store a large number of Zunru to travel and fight with.

Jackie is a fourteen year old boy who loves Zunru. Though he has a heart of gold, people find him odd- even those he considers friends. While visiting the town of Seaside Heights, Jackie uncovers a dark secret- Zunru, presumed to be of animal intelligence, are as smart and passionate as humans. They are not companions, but silent slaves.

Jackie aims to create a world where human and Zunru can walk together as equals. But this comes with challenges and costs. He loses the trust of his friends. He discovers that he has autism, a newly discovered condition that sets him apart from other humans. He must confront everything from Zu You Co. itself to his own parents. But with Zunru by his side- rather than under his thumb- Jackie might be able to set things right."

Jackie (hairstyle evolution, TW: scars, burns, readmore discusses or mentions child abuse, albiesm, depression, post traumatic stress disorder, autistic meltdown, psych ward): Over here!

Jackie (original sketch vs 2023 art)- Here!

Jackie (busts, 2020 vs 2023): Thisaway!

Jackie (scar ref, TW: scars, burns): Ouch.

SINGULARITY (formerly Capsule Zaurus)

Originally a reimagining of a prototype version of Digimon, but it got big, so I made it an original work. There is a video by Karn EX that goes into more detail.  Some of the older stuff may use the word "Zaurus" instead of "Datazar" for the monsters, and that's okay.

Human Characters- Tomoya (plus Merazaru full line): Borger

Human Characters: Tomoya and Toshi: Please for the love of God research for your stories!

2024 Main Datazar (Merazaru, Fukazaru, Kerozaru, Raizaru, Tosazaru, Orchizaru, Nyazaru): Right this way!

Anglozaru- He’s a fish

Capsule Zaurus Part 1 (Merazaru, Raizaru, Kerozaru, Tosazaru, Fukazaru): Redraws of concept art right here!

Capsule Zaurus Part 2 (Baby Army): Baby booboo 

Capsule Zaurus Part 3 (Megalozaru, Narizaru, Odosuzaru, Tonozaru, Tsukuzaru): Digivolve to Cham- oh wait that’s wrong.

FAN OCs

Characters I made up for existing properties. These are further subdivided.

DIGIMON: FRAGMENTS (DIGIMON)

A fan DigiDestined project I dabble with sometimes. This one has a fanfic, which you can read here. Please read all its tags and the author’s note in Chapter 1 before committing!

Whole Cast of Digimon Fragments + Oliver bust and character sheet + Luca character sheet: DigiDestined on parade! 

Oliver bust (TW: panic attack): Poor baby

POKEJIN (POKEMON)

An AU where all the Pokemon are gijinkas, and a deconstruction of Pokephilia weirdo fics. Follows the parallel stories of a wild Pikachu named Tekka and his band of rebels, along with two newbie Trainers who get sucked into the evil Team Embrace. Based mostly on the game universe.

Tekka (art): Pika pika! 

Tekka (lore, TW: Pokephilia mention, technically rape mention): I am cringe but I am free.

PROJECT STRIKEBACK (POKEMON)

A “what if Ash was replaced regionally starting in Jotho” character design thing. These are OCs based on the games and Ash’s previous designs.

Rico (Paldea): Mini-rant attached

UNTITLED SHINKALION PROJECT

Something I whipped up a few years ago. An original season of Shinkalion. Unfinished except for notes for now, but I have some art.

Takara (old): Mechanic nerd.

RANDOM OCS

OCs that I drew who don't belong to any project, or just random stuff.

Joran (2023 NaNo Protag): Anxiety yay!

Ryder: He's smol.

Leo (with profile, TW school trauma, child abuse, asylum mention, albiesm/masking allegory): Just a little guy.

#oc #directory #writing

[vendettacanons]

// Thinking about it bc I’m rewatching Vol. 333 and thus far, here’s what I’m understanding. Keep in mind that this is just my interpretation.

There are three main points of connection in the series: religion, analog sources, children and the alternates. And I’ll explain.

The concept of religion is a central theme, setting, and plot point. It’s a means of blending in for the alternates and a way for them to manipulate people. For the victims, it’s something of a commonplace comfort and a source of what they believe to be salvation. Because of how prevalent it is, the alternates use it to their advantage over people, especially in analog format.

Enter the Sunday cartoons. Who’s watching Sunday cartoons? Children. An audience who won’t think that the “Angel Gabriel” looks funny or different. Who won’t think it’s strange when someone like Stanley the puppet pops up on their screen. Who won’t be afraid to go along with what he says. Who won’t be smart enough to avoid being manipulated by him. And who won’t realize that, by conjuring up an imaginary friend, they’ve helped manifest an alternate into their house. One quote from the latest volume even features a child’s voice saying “I want to play with the man in the TV.”

As a side, this is probably what happened to Mark. He’s had the Intruder on his ass for what’s basically been his whole life. It’s likely that he conjured him, and as he draw different variations of the intruder, he adjusts to take that shape to torment Mark and the people around him. And based on the new information about Adam, he’s in a similar situation. The Intruder had some influence over him that led to his mother’s death. And we know it’s Adam, bc it’s the same house from Intruder alert and the divorce papers in the latest volume feature parents with the last name Murray. (We still don’t know what happened between his mother’s death and his reappearance though, but presumably, he’s wanted by the FBI bc he’s been in direct contact with the Intruder.)

After the kids have effectively summoned an alternate, the alternate seems to either make them disappear, or in cases like Mark’s, haunt them for as long as possible (though that might be limited to the Intruder himself.) And any authorities that investigate will experience firsthand the true terror and power alternates have when they step out of analog and into reality.

#// if this is disjointed I’m sorry #// I ran out of brain juice halfway though #// ooc #( m : the intruder ) #about : you’re just a lost cause

[loverlylight]

The new(ish) scar on my ankle looks a bit like the summoning mark for Agsagoth the Devourer from Dan VS, which is pretty fun.

Side note, if Dan VS was more popular, I wonder what people who hadn't watched the show would think it was about, because, yes, the overarching premise was "angry little guy seeks revenge on usually abstract concepts" but the actual show is like... it ostensibly takes place in reality, but also demons are real, one of the main characters is a secret agent and her mother is secretly part of the Mafia, werewolves AND werebears are a thing, what is considered reasonable to expect from reality varies wildly from episode to episode, and even putting aside how he interacts with Chris Dan is all but confirmed to be bi, which is pretty cool for a cartoon from the early 2010's.

#my mind is an odd place