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Someone made fun of Jordin sparks comment on the title, “A court of Sight and Shadow” saying it doesn’t make sense since Elains visions come out around Lucien and Azriels shadows skittered back from Elain whereas they “come alive” around Gwyn and all I have to say is:
If you’re labelling the shadows skittering due to Elain as something negative then you must also comsider it negative when they skitter back from Azriels own laughter:

So…according to Gwynriel logic, the shadows skittering from Elain is a negative thing which (since the shadows do the same action for Azriel) then its negative for Az too. So if the shadows dont like Elain or Az…Ig in the next book we’re going to get the shadows pov and they’ll realise how bad Az is for them and leave him, going to their true home. Sweet Gwyn.
“They come alive around Gwyn!” Referring to the one, single shadow that danced with Gwyns breath….right…so if we’re labelling that instance as the shadows coming “alive” which isnt even canonically correct then what would you label thiz instances where, unlike with Gwyn, its all of Azriels shadows?

unless they’re referring to the fact his shadows sang back in answer to some singing in which…

I would definitely argue dancing is more being alive then them responding to some song.
oh btw, Feyre felt a spark for Tamlin in her chest. So according to Gwynriels logic, feylin must be mates because ✨ spark ✨ you know, you cant just say Spark = mates for Gwynriel, since Spark is used widely in the massiverse for other things. If you want to claim this as proof of gwynriel being mates - you have to back it up with other evidence. Im sure in the 700+ pages of acosf, between Elriels charged glance and elriel blushing/smiling around each other, Mass - who loves foreshadowing and dropping clues - would have left some evidence in the actual book that Gwyn and Az are mates like she has with all her other couples.
As for the elucien part…who found out Elains gift was sight aka a seer? Certainly wasnt her useless mate who only offered the same advice that two other characters said. Oh thats right. It was Azriel and due to him seeing her and paying attention which allowed everyone else to understand what was happening w elain, that she was then freed from that murky realm, can’t also forget this little gem:


and who guided Elain through her vision? Certainly wasn’t her ashen-looking mate. It was Azriel.
Personally, I think the title “ A court of Sight and Shadow” is such a fitting title for elriel (Ik it won’t be it since the title has nothing to do w ships and wont include “and” anymore but)... Az whose experience with his own shadows was compared to Elains experience with her sight powers. Az who guided Elain through her visions. Az who figured out her gift was sight. The shadows being protective over Elain, they were ready to strike Nesta for her. The shadows helping Az rescue Elain. Elain whose never shown any hesitance or fear at the shadows. The shadows (whose job is to protect Az and give him a blanket of safety and security) trusting Elain alone w him. The shadows that went still when finding out Elain was hurt, Jordin Sparks nailed it with such a good potential title. Didnt a very popular Gwynriel comment under her video telling her to make sure she “read” the bonus…and even doing so she is an elriel stan? I love smart people, who dont allow themselves to be brainwashed into shipping whats popular, so much 🥰
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all of MY skips / shadowlord headcanons
- inSANELY trans coded, idc what yall say guys t4t me x skips 5EVER!
- also autistic. can you tell im self projecting or not hahahahahhahahah SHUT UP!
- gets migraines (yes i stole this cuz i LOVE ot so much) mostly from bright light ESPECIALLY sunlight
- discord roleplayer for SURE, 100%. not like your average kitten discord mod stuff but like SERIOUS. deep roleplay with lore for days and gripping detail, maybe freaky ONLY with his s/o.
- secretly loves those girly songs and will NEVER admit it even if you’ve caught him dancing to hot n cold by katy peary MORE than once (see what i did with katy perry haha pls laugh)
- smoker. he smokes 100% cuz he thinks its cool and edgy (fuck i love him so mcuh)
- his ENTIRE wardrobe is black. shys away into the shadows and hisses like a vampire if you even suggest a differently coloured outfit.
- used to roleplay on that wolf RP on roblox (pls tell me you remember that btw PLEAAASE)
- chronically online but not in the trendy way like in the ‘i dont go outside’ way.
- probably a creepypasta fan. loves the edgy hot guy thing (me too me too)
- cant handle heat at ALL. during the summer he sleeps with air conditioning ON and a fan blasting into his face.
- i feel like he would LOVE coding, not in like a business way but in a myspace profile way
me x skips 4ever my fav yume <3
#date everything#skips shadley#skips date everything#skips shadley date everything#date everything shadowlord#xxxshadowlord420xxx#headcanon#my headcanons
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i saw the arnie latino tweet and i couldnt resist putting dispatch in the shadow the hedgehog "i just love latinas" meme
Tbf tho
As far as character goes, and manierysm etc. Dispatch is waaaaaaaaay closer to Sonic than shadow, if anyone.
Their characters r actually very unique I think, because Arnie isn't just a whiny pathetic baby boy, he's a grown ass man with balls, but you can sympathise with him. He cries cuz mcm and the mimic is fucking teriffying not cuz he needs to be protected, he whimpers cuz he's on no sleep and high adrenaline, probably delusional too, from all of it, and dispatch isn't just (I SHOULD PROBABLY MENTION IM RUNNING OFF OF PURE HEADCANONCS HERE FOR DISPATCH) a cocky assholy phoneguy, he sounds like he's very charismatic and manipulative but not in a manhwa sexyman way, just in a "I work for a greedy horrible company sending specifically lonely man to their deaths, but you wont guess from my voice even A BIT if thats gettign to me when I try to sleep at night or not".
Back to the latinos thoooo
In dispatches case its more of a:
Dispatch: I just LOVE them pathetic and exhausted, Mr. Afton.
#disparnie#distress signal#sotm#fnaf#arnold fnaf#arnold x dispatch#dispatch fnaf#ask#idk hwo to put here but these r fun!
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As a witch I don’t do shadow work. Y’all can pile on me with hate but Carl Jung did not invent a one size fits all healing system for people who’ve been through it. Also learn what the actual frick shadow work is before you start spewing that word at anyone who has trauma in the witchcraft online space.
Im not saying its bad. Im also not saying its good. I have PTSD from a very shitty childhood and trauma in more flavors than there are of Ben and Jerry’s Ice cream. I tried shadow work, and it brought up a lot more than I could deal with at a rapid pace and my therapist actually told me to stop because it’s not a healthy solution for someone with my particular experiences and issues.
I think the important thing to working through trauma is having a toolkit of coping skills BEFORE you dive into uncovering crappy things and digging up bad triggering memories. Otherwise it’s just shocking your system into fight flight or freeze for no reason and without a way of calming yourself and coping.
Shadow work being pushed so much is genuinely concerning because it’s often pushed as a general thing that people say all “real” witches need to do. Like buddy boy? Be for real! 😤 I am uncovering and coping with my trauma through DBT and EMDR therapy because that’s WHAT WORKS FOR ME. And for everyone it’ll be different and psychologically it’s just shitty to recommend something as a “must do” without being a licensed therapist or counselor. Byeeeee
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WELL GO ON THEN how did they meet!!
(this is referring to snowcrow vamp au)
i was gonna draw the scene but then ughhh omg i cant..drawing is hard so i'll just write whatevers in my head. i *will* say again that im not a writer, just a big daydreamer. and that ive never written anything about vampires before. and i have a weird taste in storytelling so if it doesnt seem vampire core to you, its prolly cuz it sucks but dw i know im aware.
again very rough idea idk how to expand the story or build an interesting plot i just know aesthetic wise, its during the 80s - 90s so it has that retro summer vibe. ironic right? i want it to be during the times colors seem so vibrant so it can contrast with vampire sylus whos dull and pale. it can work modern time as well, as long as the place is colorful.
so they met at a summer fair. it was hot and zayne had a bloody nose. with him were mc and caleb, tryna help him clean up. and right across them just a few feet away, far enough to go unnoticed but close enough to be spotted, is sylus in shades and a sun hat bigger than his head, standing and staring at the red stream of blood dripping from zayne's nose.
they were about 11 at the time. sy's mom told him to never go out during the day. but he went anyway. since vampires are nocturnal, daytime is their nighttime, so this is like a kid sneaking out of the house when their parents are asleep to go meet up with friends or sm. but he didnt have friends. not yet at least. young sy just wanted to see what the humans were up to. thats all. til he saw zayne.
zayne didnt look like the other kids. caleb wore a bright orange shirt paired with baby blue denim shorts, his sneakers had smiley faces on them, hes got a bunch of bracelets on both his wrists. mc had a blouse with baby duck motives, a turquoise skirt with ruffles on the ends, her shoes had tom and jerry's faces, her hair full of different colored clips. very childlike, very immature. but zayne wore what a professor would wear to a university lecture. a vest and collared button shirt with slack pants.... in summer? at a fair? very dull, very boring.
if that wasn't enough, he didnt act like a kid too. it was like he was an old man trapped in a prepubescent boy's body. other kids were running around screaming while he stood beside, observing. not even talking much. the only act he did fitting for his age was eating a shit ton of candy. and when he ran out, he'll continue to stand quietly.
so devoid of color. maybe he's a vampire too. sy thought. his pale skin sure does make him look like one. it would explain his mannerism as well. but then his nose started bleeding, the heat getting to him. a gush of vibrant red, the most beautiful red color sy has ever seen. oh, this boy is human alright. and the more he stared to admire the color, the more his throat started feeling parched.
(yes zayne saw him staring yes they made direct eye contact for like 5 seconds and he turned away thinking sy's just one of those weird kids who doesnt know that staring is rude.)
they never meet again after that (not like they actually met but yk) and a few years passed yada yada idk what happened. the world started becoming more grey as he grew up. both literally and metaphorically. him being a vampire means he hides in the shadows, blending in with the shady people in the shady parts of town, which meant the humans there tasted gross. or bland. its like eating stale chips or an apple gone soft. and for years sy kept reminiscing the same shade of red, wondering if that boy whom he assumed was the same age as him, was doing well. was he still wearing vests like an old man now that he *is* an old man? was he still into candy the same way he was at the fair? and most importantly, was his blood the same color or has it lost its saturation like everything else?
and a sudden impulse grew in him. to find him. somehow. he's gotta be somewhere. unless hes dead. who knows, that boy couldve died right after the fair 20 years ago, a heart attack from all the sugar. still, its worth the shot. without any planning, he packed a small bag, wallet and keys and left, heading to the small town from his childhood which was about 4 hours from where he lives now.
he arrives and as luck may have it, they were having a fair. the same fair they held back then. many kids came back now as adults, for nostalgia sake. zayne was no different.
thats all i got 💔 idk how sy's gonna persuade him like hi i think ur hot let me suck u idk ok so u can take this and do whatver u want with it
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android! wolf x reader chap. 2
note: you guys asked and i delivered..... this chapter is something alright... enjoy! ill probably tr yto write more if my demons dont get me first
tags: um. nothing rlly tbh. typical wolf behavior and a bunch of bad jokes bc i needed to keep myself entertained. my bad if u think im horrifically unfunny :sob:
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You think there’s something wrong with your android.
Like.
Really wrong.
To be honest, everything was going perfectly fine for the first week. It was odd to come home to a clean apartment and your android standing next to your bed with its eyes closed. But it’s your new normal now. When you walked in, it seemed to be processing something. Its LED flickering yellow as its eyes stayed closed.
It was the day after you got it and you were still very very wary of it. Never having an android before.
It stood there in its uniform, hands folded in front of it and resting on it’s chest. You’re sure that is not most android’s resting position but whatever… It’s dark brunette hair shadowing against the soft light coming from your window.
“Wolf?”
Immediately it’s head perks up, eyes zeroing in on you as if it were an animal. You yelp because it’s fucking scary and it stares at you before looking out the window. You blink at it with half of your body hiding behind the wall, staring at it in your space.
“Will this be the time you will normally come back?”
“Um. No? I have different classes everyday.”
It’s LED flickers yellow once again before nodding, as if it was logging in the information.
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“This is so fucking weird…”
You mutter before scratching at your head and turning away.
Your day is full of studying because college is truly nothing but pain and suffering and no one prepped you for that fact before you enrolled in classes. With your laptop in front of you, notebook in lap, and flashcards scattered along the table; you feel your brain melting. It bleeds into nighttime before the screen is the only thing illuminating the room. Saving the second essay you have to do today, you rest a cheek on the cover of your laptop.
During this ordeal, your android stands on the opposite end of the table. Hands at its sides as it just stares at you. It’s really creepy but you decide to ignore it in favor of correcting the next underlined word in your document.
When it asks what you need it to do, you reply with nothing. Feeling the pull of sleep rests in your bones as you close your eyes. It stands still at the edge of your table before it turns on a lamp nearby.
When you wake up from your nap, your first thought is “oh god i have to finish my fucking essay, i’m gonna fail.” Then the second thought you have is that “wow that sound is going to make me kill myself.”
When you pick your head up, there’s your android standing next to the stove. It’s chopping something and you rub your eyes before pulling the blanket that’s on your shoulders tighter around yourself. You didn’t even realize how cold it had gotten in your apartment. Actually, when did you even get the blanket?
Whatever…
“You can cook?”
“Yes, It’s in my programming. You insisted on cooking for yourself yesterday though.”
Yeah and you made the meanest egg sandwich ever, thank you very much. You don’t appreciate its demeaning tone so you huff and cross your arms on the wooden table. Still surrounded by the ashes of your enemies (college studying materials), you open back up your laptop.
“What are you making anyway?”
“Warm Carrot Salad with Spiced Pepita and Cashew Crunch.”
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What.
“I’m making vegetable soup.”
Great.
You’re so glad it has sarcasm built into its system.
You’ve never seen this model in any advertisements or commercials and you could wager a guess on why.
“They were going rotten. So I made whatever I could.”
It continues about how you should utilize your kitchen more before settling back into silence. You take this as a generous sign from God to let it go and just finish your essay. When you rush to turn it in at 11:59, it smells like the food is done. A hand moves aside your crime scene of flashcards, settling down rice that you didn’t even know you had and a bowl of soup.
“Eat.”
Is all it says as you mumble a gimme a sec as fingers fly over the keys. Clicking submit feels as good as an orgasm even if it is dogshit. At least you submitted it right?
…
You eat the soup and rice in approximately two minutes. famished from your endeavors of selling your soul to the devil that is called university. The android actually cooks pretty well, but you don’t know why it’s oddly spicy.
Did you even have spicy sauces?
Well well well… your android must also be a magician!
It does the dishes as you stuff your face before you finish and it also takes your plates. Tired from your day and from the food, your head hits your arms where they are on the table. Still surrounded by flashcards and your notebook, you decide to leave it all until tomorrow. Your first class starts at 11:15 anyway.
There are footsteps that walk next to you; stopping next to your chair. A sharp jawline meets your vision as you see its brunette hair in view.
“You should go to bed.”
It helpfully informs you. You turn your head in your sleep-addled mind, before snorting a little. Raising a hand carelessly while keeping your head down.
“This is how I sleep most days.”
“Your back is going to give out in 10 years.”
The advice leaves its lips wrapped in bluntness and slight snark. Didn’t you work so hard today? And this is what you get? You feel like a disgruntled father.
“The fuck was your programmer thinking…? You’re such an ass…..”
A murmur leaves your lips as you chuckle, a bit exhausted. Only a little even though your eyes are one blink away from closing for 8 peaceful hours.
It doesn’t give you the grace of an answer. Just staring at you before your eyes close again, falling very quickly into sleep.
There’s some shuffling before something pulls your chair out from under the table, you turn to complain before an arm slots under your knees and your face pressed up against fabric. But honestly you’re quite literally too tired to care.
It’s silent as you press your ear against the light whirring of machinery, the android’s model name bright against your blearily opened eyes. It doesn’t care to not jostle around and you halfheartedly go to smack it. Your bedroom comes into view as your hand places right where its heart is.
But you don't feel the light thrumming of a pulse beneath your fingertips.
Soft and plush bedding meets your cheek as it lies you down. Your blanket greeting you like an old friend before you look up at your android that’s currently going to turn off your desk lamp.
“Do you not have a heart?”
You’re met with silence before it stands back next to your bedside. A cold plastic hand snatches your wrist, a bit rough. It leans down, it’s grey eyes boring into yours. You wonder why the designers gave it such a handsome face if you never saw it in any advertising material.
Your hand is pressed to his chest, covering his model name with your finger tips. You feel the smooth material as he stares down at you.
The warm glow of your lamp lighting his face up like a dream. Your drowsiness helping with the feeling in your chest, hand grasped to its chest.
“Not a heart like yours, this filters thirium. It was created to not be a disturbance to humans.”
It’s voice is clipped and cold. There’s no consideration for the obvious underlying meaning in your words as you stare at one another. As always, it looks indifferent to your inner mental struggle. It makes your stomach churn with the homemade food in response to its robotic face.
“Mmm this is why I didn’t want an android…”
It’s met with a back to its face as you remove your hand from its ‘heart’. Standing next to your bed with slightly raised eyebrows.
It’s not a him and it’s just a robot.
“You’re not the real thing…”
Sleep comes easily once again as it stays silent. Stepping back and standing next to your bedside like some weird humanoid gargoyle.
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When you brought it out for the first time, that’s when the real issues began. A girl needs to go grocery shopping, what can you say? So you let it follow behind you to the store. It’s been a few days of home cooked meals getting more and more spare and you don’t know how much more you can take.
While you’re trying to decide if bread is really worth your last few cents your parents gave you, there’s squealing behind you. Karla from your How to Goon 101 class greets you excitedly, jumping up and down as she grabs your hands. You greet her with a small embarrassed smile, having dressed in the worst possible clothes to see other people in.
Your android circles around to peer into your face, you silently try to ignore its piercing glance. Its lashes flutter as its LED flashes red, yellow, then turns back to blue. Before it settles back behind you, albeit a bit closer. Your friend eventually leaves you in the bread aisle with a pep in her step and a “don’t skip! professor is cracking down on you people..”
You’re left alone as your friend goes back to her boyfriend with a big grin on her face. A hand runs down the side of your face as you will away the slight jealousy. You don’t care at all! Not at all!
“Is that a friend of yours?”
Turning your head from staring bullet holes into the bread in your hand that’s half off, you meet the brunette’s cybernetic eyes. You have no idea why it’s asking you but you shrug anyways.
“Yeah? Friend from my writing class.”
It’s silent in its reply.
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Okay????
“Is that a problem?”
“It won’t.”
You continue your grocery trip without further complaint. Android holding your grocery bags in both hands as you walk along the street. The sign signals to cross and you walk in tandem with your android trailing behind you.
25 seconds to pass.
Suddenly a shoulder slams into yours. It sends you stumbling to the ground in all the glory of an x reader fanfiction. Where’s Harry Styles and when is One Direction gonna buy you off from your mother? Better than your android watching you pitifully topple onto the ground like humpty dumpty.
24 seconds to pass.
“Watch where you’re going, dumbass!”
A voice hurriedly snaps as it steps away. Not even to mention it was their fault for running into you but you bite your lip and try to stand up. Without a beat passing, a hand grips the wrist of your fleeing assailant.
23 seconds to pass.
There’s a yelp and a “what the fuck” to the air as you look up. Your android, groceries all in one hand as it’s other hand tightening its hold on the man. Your eyes widen as it all happens in a matter of seconds, your android yanking the hit and run trainee back.
People are stopped on the crosswalk as they stare and the people in their cars stare with bated breaths. Your android’s lips curl into a mean sneer as it twists the wrist of the man. As you stand, you watch as its LED flashes red.
Said man has fallen to his knees as your android stands above him, its hair catching the sun and glinting off the synthetic fiber. Lips curled as it let go of his wrist before curling into a fist.
“I’ll start with your-”
“Wolf! What the fuck?!”
The word STOP??? leaves your lips as you grab its arm. Your fingers digging into its jacket, trying to drag it away. Flashing red, then yellow, before wrenching itself away and back to your side. You bow and bow and bow before there’s five seconds til the crosswalk turns red, grabbing your android’s hand as you run away from the people yelling at you.
It’s hand is cold in yours, not gripping yours back. Just letting you drag it along with indifferent eyes as it scans the area. Your groceries shaking with the android’s fist turning white from the pressure on it. Your legs bring you to your apartment fast as you collapse on your small couch. Staring up at your stupid birthday present as you gasp out breaths.
“What the actual fuck is wrong with you?!”
It straightens up as it settles your groceries down on the counter. The plastic pulled tightly from where it was holding all of them. It’s eyes staring at you with detachment that only an android can pull off. It’s eyebrows raised, unimpressed by your crass question as it puts away a box of cereal.
“My programming provides a generous 3 seconds before triggering ‘Combative Mode’.”
It says as if it’s the most obvious thing in the world. As if it came on the packaging it came with. Well maybe you didn’t have that because he just showed up in your apartment as a birthday present!
…
Well.
Straight back to the store it goes!!!!
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This isn't a drill folks!! I'm back and more delusional than ever for a specil Theory Time™ BONUS ROUND!!!
Since posting this theory i've been stewing on the ideas i've presented, and today I've had a couple revelations regarding information I didn't think of when I wrote it initially, so i've got a couple additions to this theory that might be actually really significant!! Without further adieu, lets get a little glooby with it
The first thing I was thinking about was the distribution of the shadow crystals by the knight, and how one of the instances is significantly different than the others!
We know where the chapter 3 shadow crystal comes from since we see Susie chip it off the Knight's sword in real time.
In chapter 4, it's heavily implied that the knight gave Gerson a shadow crystal by leaving it in his desk considering Gerson's dialogue about the Knight when you first enter his study and the crystal when you beat him as the secret boss
Both of these instances involve the crystal coming directly from the knight itself, either being given by it or taken from it, and following this pattern we can infer that Jevil was likely also given his crystal by the knight considering we learn in chapter 4 that Jevil was (seemingly) the only character in chapter 1's dark world that was in direct contact and likely correspondence with the Knight
...but what about the chapter 2 shadow crystal? Spamton didn't have it when we met him, but instead he found it inside the NEO body
When could the knight have put that shadow crystal there, and why would they? They left a shadow crystal in Gerson's desk intended for him since its something he uses all the time, but Spamton physically cant get into the basement without our help. If the knight left that crystal in the machine with the intent of Spamton having it, wouldn't it be more straightforward just to put it in his trash shop or one of his dumpsters? Its also implied that the knight made chapter 2's fountain and then dipped pretty much immediatly considering Queen's line about the Knight having "taken it's leave". Queen also mentions "guessing based on the Knight's actions" which also implies she never met the knight either, only having seen traces of them like the "birth of a fountain" video
So, if the chapter 2 crystal didn't come from the knight, where did it come from? how did it get inside the old machine?
This is where we re-intersect with my theory, because I think that crystal grew inside the machine as a part of it's creation in the same way i'm proposing the knight was created, the creation of a new identity
We know from dialouge with both Swatch and Seam after defeating Spamton that the Neo body is actually something like an MS Paint drawing of Mettaton's ideal body he made since Alphys hasnt made him his robot body in Deltarune
So, much like how im preposing the knight was created as a new version of Dess's identity born in the dark world from her losing track of who she was and subconciously filling in the gaps with fiction, the NEO body was Mettaton's attempt to intentionally create a new identity for himself through art that became something incredibly powerful in the dark world
In other words, Mettaton was creating a new lightner through fiction in the same way i'm proposing Dess accidentally created the Roaring Knight
Thats why the NEO body and the Knight are so powerful, thats why Spamton was so intent on getting his hands on the NEO body for his plan to reach heaven, they're effectively lightners
The NEO body, however, was discarded and unfinished, so instead of becoming something like the knight (or even just straight up becoming Mettaton's new identity in the light world) made up entirely of shadow crystals, only a small one grew inside it, one that was discarded and left to rot
This is BIG folks, because two makes a pattern from which we can start to triangulate conclusions about the nature of shadow crystals! If what i'm presenting is true, I think shadow crystals might be created from the process of creating a new identity through fiction, creating a new lightner through the power of the dark world
Furthermore, while I was scrolling through the wiki for the shadow crystals while writing this I stumbled across the flavor text you get when you attempt to drop a shadow crystal in chapter 4's light world
Doesn't "(It would be like throwing away someone's identity)" fit kinda perfectly here, just like how mettaton threw away his?
In any case, onto my next addendum!!
This scene
As someone whos a big proponent of Mollystars' Device Theory, this scene immediatly set off all my alarms when I first played it, but I couldnt quite grasp exactly what it was trying to say
The whole video game segment in chapter 3 is representing another layer of fiction inside of the already established ones, but through the SWORD route we can achieve this scene where we as the soul inside the game-kris seperate from the real kris and exit the game's layer of fiction into the dark world's layer of fiction
By interacting with fiction inside the dark world, we create a new character based off kris but removed from them through the abstraction of fiction that we control, which is then able to traverse out of the game world and into the dark world
...by throwing ourselves further and further into deeper and deeper layers of fiction we lose track of the distinction between the original Kris and the game-kris and they seperate into two characters that traverse the layers of fiction in similar ways
where have I heard that before?
This is pretty much beat for beat what i'm suggesting happened to dess to create the knight!!! She lost track of the distinction between her identity and the fictional parts of her identity she dreamt up by losing track of dream and "reality", and that new identity percipitated into the Roaring Knight which can traverse the light and dark world in the same way Dess would be able to
This is admittedly much more speculation than my first addendum since i'm interpretting one (very cryptic) scene, but I think this is definitly connected assuming i'm correct about the creation of the Knight, which is a pretty big assumption
All in all though, I think there is a pretty clear thematic pattern being drawn here between the Knight, the Titan Spawn, the NEO body, and the SWORD route, the creation of a new identity through interacting with fiction
Deltarune's themes about how we interact with fiction have been talked about since the game came out all the way back in 2018, so this angle about forging a new identity for yourself through fiction fits perfectly alongside the established themes of escapism and improving yourself and becoming more authentically yourself through fiction that we see exemplified in characters like Susie, Noelle, and Berdly
Moreover, say for Gerson who didnt use his crystal and was focused on Susie, the secret bosses have been heavily thematically tied to Kris so far, and one of the most important thematic bases for their character is their struggle with identity
Maybe by pursuing the shadow crystals we're going down the route of helping Kris tackle their issues and create a new identity for themselves that they choose?
This whole thing also directly contradicts the statement at the beginning of the game that we've long since thought parrallel's flowey's antithesis at the beginning of Undertale,
Maybe this path with the secret bosses and the shadow crystals is how we defy this statement and allow Kris to choose who they are, like Mettaton was attempting to, like Dess might have unknowingly
In the beginning of chapter two, when talking with Seam after giving him Jevil's shadow crystal, he says
Maybe that incredible something they can stitch together for you with those shattered, discarded pieces of identity is a new one just for Kris? Maybe a new one just for us, the player?
Deltarune is just as much about how we, you and I, interact with fiction after all, and that kind of metanarrative gut punch is the exact thing I would expect from the guy who made Undertale!
My last thought on this point is that these themes are also heavily present in one character other than Kris, Ralsei! I dont exactly know what to do with that information at the moment, but my best guess is that Ralsei's story will eventually intersect pretty heavily with that of the secret bosses.
And with that, we've reached the (current) end of this theory!! I'm actually so proud of how this came out now that i've written the whole thing with my new discoveries, especially since it feels so much stronger and more likely with them taken into consideration! This is still just my best attempt at understanding things with the information we've been given at this moment in time, and I make a lot of mistakes, so I could totally have been wrong about everything, or missed something, or misremembered something, or what have you, so please tell me your thoughts in a reblog or in the comments! I hope this made sense, or was at least an interesting read, take care of yourselves and have a wonderful day everybody!!
Theory Time™: "WHO IS THE KNIGHT!! WHO IS IT!!!!"
...so we all agree its dess right? Pretty much everything about the knight, the antlers, the bat, the flavor text, points to it being december (say for the it's suspiciously papyrus shaped figure) and people have layed out the evidence time and time again.
So thats it right? Theory Time™ over? It would be, but I can't shake the feeling that's not the whole story, and every time I look back at the new information we got in chapters 3&4 I feel even more strongly that we're missing a big piece of the knight's identity
SO!!! Here's my best shot explaining why I think the Roaring Knight isnt December holiday, why it also isnt not December holiday(?), but instead why the Roaring Knight I think might maybe probably be a secret, far more concerning third thing!
First order of business,
How does the knight take Undyne to the shelter?
I absolutely understand how the knight overpowers undyne in the dark world, she's only been in the dark world for a grand total of like 15 seconds, but how does the knight take her out of the dark world and drag her all the way through town into the shelter?
We know that Undyne, even if not formally trained in deltarune, is still crazy strong in the light world, she was literally bench pressing a car in chapter 2
so if the knight is December, I have a hard time believing she could still physically drag Undyne into the shelter dark world all the way across town faster than kris and susie can run once they're in the light world and the knight no longer has access to all its darkness magic or dark world levels or whatever
Maybe because its nighttime the knight is able to retain some of its power and thats how december could do it? Seam does have the line "You dont want to get caught when the sun goes down..." but kris and susie dont retain anything from their dark world personas so I dont think thats the case
Either way, onto the second order of business
December is missing right?
Noelle is desperately searching online for any trace of her, we're prompted to "find her" in the spamton sweepstakes secret pages, her theme (presumably) is titled Lost Girl, and Asgore has a conspiricy corkboard in his basement which reads to me as his attempt to track her down since theres a lot implying he's connected to her dissapearence
...but the knight is right here, hopping around town making dark worlds
what makes this incongruous to me is that Carol and Kris are both directly working with the knight, kris directly assisting the knight by making the TV World fountain and holding back when confronting them, and Carol talking with kris on the phone about the plan to "Police... sacrifice... next week..." which is presumably why the knight took Undyne to the shelter in the first place
So if Carol and Kris are both working with the knight, and the knight is December, wouldn't they tell someone that they found her? Would they at least tell Rudy or Noelle??
Carol also has a corkboard in her room that we see during the vent section where we see asgore monolouge, what would she have that for if its not implying shes also searching for dess?
My best guess is something horrible happened to her and they dont want to tell anyone, but i'll get back to that idea later once i'm done laying out all my evidence. Even if thats the case though, why all the fuss about finding her when she's got 100% more screen time than Papyrus and she appears in encounters you literally cannot miss no matter how you play the game?
In any case, on to exhibit no.3
↑ how does the knight do that???
looking at the way the knight moves and acts during the few enounters we have with them, they dont seem to act like a physical person like the lightners do, which December probably should if this is her
it shape shifts into that little marble thingy for one, which is something we dont see any of the other lightners come close to doing
Instead, the knight seems to act a lot like some specific darkners and darkner adjacent things!
Firstly, it floats and flies around everywhere, which is something we only see Ralsei do, specifically only in scenes involving the knight

Ralsei also poofs out of existance and becomes "a pile of fluff" when he goes down in battle, which is the closest thing to the kind of shape shifting the knight does where it becomes something much smaller than its original form
The Knight, however, does something much more interesting when taking significant damage
When hit with susie's rude buster or kris's solo attacks, and at the end of the fight after surviving the full screen attack, the knight glitches with this audio-wave-looking static effect, which is incredibly reminiscent of the Titan and Titan Spawn, who have a similar effect when taking damage albeit horizontally instead of vertically

The Knight also share's its visual appearence with the Titan and it's spawn, being pitch black with white lineart and "faces"
What exactly this suggests the knight is i'll get back to later, but all this makes me really think the knight is not actually a lightner like Dess would (presumably) be
Finally, for my last bit of evidence for why I dont think the knight is dess before I get to what I do think the knight is,
UNUSED !
I dont actually consider this "evidence" since we dont actually have any real indication of who the character speaking here is, but the best candidate that we can conceptualize is Dess, so if anything I just wanted to mention it since its another thing giving me pause on the idea that the Knight is truely December since it gives us another amazing candidate for Dess's whereabouts, even if its like the shakiest foundation to base a theory off of possible
Alright, we're halfway through the theory! This is the second one of these long analysis posts i've made (my last one was about GALLERY) so I hope its making some sense!!
To summarize, I dont think the Roaring Knight is actually literally December Holiday because it behaves really strangely in both the light world and dark world in ways that a lightner like Dess probably shouldnt. The next bit of the theory is going to be about what I actually think the Roaring Knight might be, which is the bit of the theory that'll be much more of speculation since that question is much broader than "is the knight actually dess"
Before we get into that though, take a break if you need to! Remember to get some water, stretch a bit, whatever you need to be comfortable!!
Alrighty!! So, if the Roaring Knight isn't December Holiday, who is? Why does literally everything about them scream December Holiday??
As established I dont think Dess is literally the knight, but I do think that the knight is in some way based off of her or created in her image! But why? how? in what way? by who?
One line that really stuck out to me when I was thinking about this is this dialogue from chapter 3's egg room,
This alone isnt much to go off of aside from the connection that the knight is entirely monochrome, but in chapter 4's egg room we get this text from checking the bookcase
The only other things that are described as "like glass" are shadow crystals, and we see first hand by winning beating the knight in chapter 3 and chipping it's sword that the knight is made of them. Additionally, the first thing the knight does when we confront it is sparkle and then turn around crying, which feels like an overt connection to that book in the egg room
To give it a shot in the dark, I think that the thing that grew from the bitter water was the knight, and by extension the "fallen star" was Dess, who fell into wherever the dark place from the unused code is and accidentally created the knight. The knight looks like dess, it moves like dess, it has things dess would have, and to take it a step further it might even effectively be Dess's OC (in the same way the god of hyperdeath was asriel's) considering the monochrome handmade posters for fake bands in her room, one of which is sporting a sword extremely prominently
I think the way Dess accidentally created the knight has to do with the character in the unused code, who i'm assuming is Dess, talking about how they're unsure if they're awake or dreaming. I think Dess, lost in the fiction of some darker than dark world, lost conception of what is or is not reality and dreamt the knight into existance without even realizing she was dreaming, thereby creating fiction that truly believes itself to be real (or something of the like). This could explain why the knight and the shadow crystals are so powerful, and also why the crystals stay the same in the light world and the dark world, because the knight is something like a lightner (fiction that believes itself to be real) made from the esoteric essence of fiction, darkness.
The knight mimics December, using her bat, having her horns, doing figure skating movements, even crying like she presumably was at the moment she created the knight because the knight was born from her subconcious. Maybe, in losing whether or not she was dreaming or awake, Dess also lost a full grip on her identity and imagined herself a new one without realizing it, resulting in the knight?
This also reminds me of this one piece of flavor text from the fight with the titan spawn that im so curious about,
what if having these things, which are already similar to the knight, even having another line of flavor text that says "it sputtered in a voice like crushed glass" bring up the question of where your identity comes from is maybe an allusion the knight being an imagined concept of the self which is just as real as the lightners by implying all concepts of the self are essentially fiction?
I dont know, im trying my best here :<
The important thing though, reguardless of what exactly the knight is, is that the knight is some sort of fictional copy of December Holiday made of shadow crystals
This is why I think the knight can kidnap Undyne in the light world, since shadow crystals are still the same there the knight is probably still some kinda amalgamated shadow crystal beast or something in the light world, or maybe its still the knight
I think its also aluded to in chapter two when you visit the police station and talk to the dogs, who mention some kind of horrifying merciless something in the woods by the holiday manor
....and thats about it!! Lets go over my conclusions one more time, ranked in order of what I think is most likely!
The knight isn't actually literally December Holiday, but instead something based off of her
2. The knight is lurking around hometown in the form of some terrifying shadow crystal beast
3. Dess is the character speaking in the "UNUSED" code
4. Dess is also the "fallen star" mentioned in the chapter 4 egg room, and accidentally created the knight as a fictionalized version of her identity that believes itself to be real by losing track of reality and fiction
Congrats on making it to the end!! Im trying my best to make sense of all this information and contort it into some kind of conclusion that makes sense and works with the themes of the game, but theres so much to unpack here that its hard to even know where to start (i didnt even mention the 1225 gumball machine room...)
Last time I did one of these I made a bunch of mistakes, so please do let me know in the comments if you catch anything!! Also let me know what you guys think about this, i'm so curious to know all your guys' interpretations!!!
#deltarune#utdr#toby fox#roaring knight#december holiday#Theory Time™#kris dreemurr#ralsei#spamton#mettaton#jevil#gerson boom#deltarune analysis#deltarune theory#yeah so this might be even longer than the first post lol#i think I should invest in a corkboard at this point
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hi heres art so you pay attention to me now go read the tags
#ive been rewatching episode 7 like its the only thing on youtube and made note of many things#first off. the solver can only have one host. nori mentions skyn wants to kill off all the other solver hosts (with the dds) and disregards#the idea of both uzi and doll being its current host when they get chased#plus the main solver possessions only occur when skyn is out of the picture (the fightt in ep 7 is only after n decapitates “tessa”)#solver uzi is possible too but i dont count her cause she doesn't have the yellow#personal theory is that its more an instinctual response to overheating or something and not full on possession#second off nori calls the solver cyn. how does she know that name#cyn was on earth and only showed up to copper 9 recently and i presume nori's been here her whole life#it probably wasn't the other dds cause none of them made it down and they're all more savage beasts#since cyn specifies n's team retained their personalities and that makes me think the other teams didnt#also also we should've immediately questioned tessa arriving in the same type of pod as the mds when they were revealed to not be sent by j#im running out of characters also the people who dont like when i use tags like this can bite me#murder drones#murder drones nori#artori? that sounds cool#ill probably just stick with nori though#i have so many solver heart refs now#art#episode 7#murder drones episode 7#murder drones episode 7 spoilers#using the same black for shadows as my lineart doesn't work when i have to draw thin things over it#murder drones spoilers
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Hi!! Your Cherik is so good and gorgeous 🤩🤩 If you don't mind wanna try to draw some Fall of X Cherik please?
thank you so much !!
i have a couple of ideas relating to the fall of x period specifically since theres. A Lot i wanna play with, so i hope this lil thing may be a satisfactory start :]]
and the obligatory bonus:
#xmen#xmen comics#fall of x#cherik#charles xavier#erik lehnsherr#erik magnus lehnsherr#max eisenhardt#professor x#magneto#snap sketches#for clarity on of this tag ramble im calling magneto max OK ok#sorry it took me a while to answer- ive been busy this week !#but yah like i said theres a lot of Fall Of X moments i wanna poke at#one i really wanted to doodle around was max's time with the shadow king from Resurrection of Magneto#the third issue is prob my fave in general if im so tbh .... but i wont prattle bout that ill go back to my previous prattle#i dont think i have a comic in mind prob just a doodle with shadow charles....#i mean if im devious enough i can def turn it into a comic but for now i just know i wanna do something with that#honestly even this moment i might revisit when i have more time to draw something. a lil better#i dont hate this its a sound start- but i THINK i wanna draw a smooch. a lil kiss. idk we'll see#cause im cheeky like that. 'will this be the last time i see you' 'girl idk we can kiss about it though' etc etc#god not to get off topic but im so curious what will happen with these two ... but thats for a diff post i guess#honestly if you guys have any runs i should read lemme know !! i just finished way of x and bar that ive just been reading the 60s issues#i have a couple on my list i wanna check out but im always excited to look into recs if yall think theyre worth it !!#but ya. thats all from me for now#my time is so finite this week i hope i can draw these sillies again soon .. i have a lot of ideas i fear#maybe i can sneak in one more doodle tonight ... <- doubtful
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wereramb design i was toying with last night...
#i feel like its a little simplistic (?) but also considering that i've never been one for character design i'm happy enough LOL#besides i can always refine it later...#ramb#deltarune#deltarune spoilers#my main ideas were umm. incorporating the shadow mantle into his existing clothes + keeping the general shape of his. hair/ears/whatever#those are because i feel like a fight against a wereramb would be more fucked up if he was more easily recognizeable as ramb...#like yuppppppp heres your reminder that this guy who loves you and has been trying his best to do what (at least he thinks) is best for you#is now the guy you have to actively fight against (Given the already tragic nature of his story im imagining that a fight would Not really#have a happy ending. LOL.)#And also I wanted to give him cunty boots. I also just wanted to do that for fun
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Bonus little Shadow for u 🫴
#drawing these made me really happy i had such a fun time#in a way i usually dont idk how to describe it#i think im truly getting a better sense of how i like to draw these two <3#getting more comfortable drawing them outside of my standard 4 stock poses lol#im really proud of shadows expression in the first one its the exact loving look i was going for :DD!#anyways gay hedgehogs hope u like!!#sonic the hedgehog#shadow the hedgehog#sonadow#sonic x shadow#sth#sth fanart#sonic fanart#sonadow fanart#sonic#shadonic#sticks can draw!?
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arrives 15 min late with a latte
......sup
#yosuke hanamura#persona 4#cool now that its done i can ramble in the tags#fellas im surprised hes here and done#did not think that was gonna happen#fuck i forgot smth#eh ill fix it before i make my print#anywho i might make more i might not who knows not i#yukiko is the next one i have half an idea on but also i have some shining nikki designs rattling around with my sole braincell#i also made a shadow alt for the back but idk if i like the mouth so yall arent gonna see him#also i need to find a gold foil guy that does odd sizes and like moq of 1#bc i wanna do this in gold foil#and its tarot card size bc im dumb as hell#but i want a print for my wall and i know sure as shit no one else will want one hence the moq of 1#my heart wants to make the whole major arcana for p4 but my past completed works says °❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:・ 𝑛𝑜 °❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:・#so whatever gets done will get done#also im gonna reblog this a lot bc i put in too many hours to get a singular note by me so like if you dont wanna see it block me lmfao#if you have any hot takes for future cards please share with the class bc i only have ideas for yukiko and a full cast she does not make fr#so uh yeah yeehaw#idk what else to ramble about but like cannot believe yosuke fucking hanamura is the first chara to get a completed piece in 5 years#im not fucking kidding#the rest were all quick graphite or abandoned#hes not even my fave in p4- thats naoto protag chan kou and nanako#boys lucky to hit top 5#he just kinda crawled into my affection like some kind of sad pathetic creature idk how it happened either#maybe hes overprocessed now that im looking at it#nope i looked too long this is it this is how he is#ill do better by the women i promise
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I'M LOSING MY SHIT OVER YOUR RAMB ART. LIKE IT'S THE PERFECT MIX OF COMICAL AND DEEPLY TRAGIC MAN AND I REALLY LIKE IT. I'm taking your art and running with it thank you very much for your contribution to my insanity
Well buckle up buddy boy cus I'm not even close to being done
That's exactly it! He's so goofy both cus he wants to be and also he's just naturally.. like that, but he's also incredibly tragic to the point where it's almost jarring??
First time players (me) who didn't play the sword game and saw him petrified next to a random pippins who's roasting the HELL out of him just... What is going on?? He was nice and made funny faces... He's completely alone? His job was given to him to get rid of him?? No one likes his jokes?? No one will care that he died??? Other darkners from different dark fountains are fine cus they felt like they belonged but he's... stone?........ He... loved us..?
Inside he was probably stone already...? (Most obvious depression metaphor in a Toby fox game ever) But also his every other expression is that fuckass smug cat face. "How about the usual?" On his first day on the stand. Like that older family member who was so funny and nice to you when you were younger- then you grew up and learned just how horrible his life is.
I went off but you get what I mean??? God damnit. I'm so happy I managed to get this across in my posts about him!! With these kinda characters (I'm mainly thinking of sans atm) there's a delicate balance between the silliness and the tragedy that if one overshadows the other their unique personality gets lost. A lot of us Undertale veterans are guilty of this with sans, myself included, so that's why I'm so happy you feel like I did him justice :]
Thank you for the kind words! I'm always up to worsen people's obsessions <333 here's a ramb I drew on my phone in two minutes, felt cute might petrify later

#awesome people being nice#sorry for writing a longer reply than the ask itself lol. he activates that part of my brain that makes me write that was dormant in school#deltarune#ramb#ramb deltarune#deltarune ramb#i just realized i. have yet to post all of my more serious ideas for him. up until now it was mainly jokes#i did draw some but im not sure im ready to post those.... ive written a shit ton tho#the usual werewire storyline everyone in his fan community of 6 people is constantly thinking about#but the thought that he'd willingly become a werewire. so kris could have another fun battle.#even if he doesn't want to fight. even if he doesn't want to lose himself. if we want fun than that's his purpose#he said it himself#imo the only thing stopping that from happening is because he doesn't have a shadow crystal#but those are thoughts for another day :']]#im legit so happy so many people like my posts about this goober... i thought people wouldn't care or like#would think its cool or cute but because he's quote unquote nothing in the story no one will see why i love him so much#im so happy i was proven wrong. HE'S SO IMPORTANT. TO ME. TO US.#rn im working on that ramb essay i thought about writing :]] I'll replay the game 10000 times to collect dialogue this is gonna be legit#hopefully people will like that too!!!#anyway if you're still reading this i hope you're doing alright :]] <33 have a good one. cheers! <3
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GOD I CANT STOP LOOKING AT THEM. THIS IS FOR ME!!!! THEY DID THIS FOR ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#ann cries about feh#also i was like thinking about it earlier cuz i was like#99% sure it was ashen wolf summer off the shadows but not entirely sure#and so i was like if they do duo hapi/coco i did PREFER hapi as the lead#but i didnt actually think theyd give it to the brown girl with the less defined trope#NOT a dig on constance at all i love my coco. but i figured her noble girl trope + appearance would be more of what intsys likes to market#so im. pleasantly surprised#not that who leads is that big of deal bc. BC. ITS. HAPISTANCE LESBIAN SUMMER!!!!!!#WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO#ARGEGRHRHGHHHHHHHH#I GAVE AWAY BOTH MY THREE HOPES AND HOUSES COPIES TO FRIENDS TO BORROW#I CANR EVEN HIMEJOSHI TF OUT WITH MY GAMES RN#FUCKKKKKKK
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apparently people are mad about this dialogue and saying its out of character and flattening amy into a boring responsible mom friend type and i would agree wholeheartedly if she was saying this to any of her friends but once i found out she was talking to jet i was like "oh. that makes a little more sense. fair enough i guess"
#like i do not think amy would say this to any of her friends#because she would gladly participate in banter and playful teasing with sonic tails knuckles shadow etc#(but also i feel like for actual straight up mean trash talk all her friends are either too nice to do that in general#or they just dont have that sort of dynamic with amy in particular )#but jet can be soo egotistical and rude and annoying (said affectionately of course i literally like jet)#i dont blame amy for being a bit annoyed with him here#though i still get where people are coming from when they say this doesnt feel like the most in character line#im just a lot more willing to accept it when its directed at jet than if it were directed at anyone else#sonic racing crossworlds#sonic racing crossworlds spoilers
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i think the thing that really gets me about all the "we've got to kill this guy kabru" meme redraws with mithrun is that in the very first conversation mithrun has with laios, he trusts him with, essentially the fate of the world and his life long revenge quest against the demon
#dungeon meshi#mithrun#laios touden#i just think is neat really.#like in a way. laios is entrusted with what has haunted both kabru and mithrun for a significant portion of their lives#actually i think its. pretty interesting how trusting mithrun tends to be. while he says outright that he knows kabru is plotting something#he lets him go and execute his plan to start with..think its only until kabru says hes going to go get the shadow lord's help that mithrun#is like 'yeah okay thats not going to work im going to go ahead with mine'#is just really interesting to me. how he gives people chances where others wouldn't. bcs im sure any other canary captain wouldn't#not that its not deserved but the demon benefits so much from people seeing the canaries as this unreasonable unforgiving threat#also it was absolutely to the winged lions benefit that marcille become the dungeon lord- even if it liked laios more marcille was more#vulnerable to his manipulation and brainwashing#i think laios could've been reasoned with before becoming the dungeon lord but marcille couldn't#dungeon meshi spoilers#went back to these tags after looking again and you know i think mithrun let kabru talk with the shadow lord so kabru would not interfere#with what he told the rest of the canaries to do#my post
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