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Ford "Icarus didn't flap hard enough" Pines

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(audio from portal 2!) This is how that dream conversation went right????? au where everythings the same but poor edward is from the west country,

ANYWAY LMAO HI I've been learning animation just to make this!! FOR SOME REASON!!! IT TOOK TWO WEEKS TO ANIMATE. this quote was my IMMEDIATE thought as soon as Poor Edward said "I've had to make ALL the sacrifices for this marriage!" so i just needed to bring it into being outside of my brain. tbh IM PRETTY PROUD OF IT...... anyway sweet dreams samuel!!

[video transcript] [Poor Edward, from below, gesturing with exasperation]: I've done nothing but sacrifice to get us here! And what have you sacrificed? [Cut to Samuel, feeling around him to figure out that he's in a coffin, panicking as the sides start closing in] Poor Edward: Nothing. Zero. [/end transcript]

additional notes:

thren and I both did the riot rather than burning down the orphanage, so instead of burn scars, Edward got his hands broken. He might have new skin but making a fist is still a lil lopsided,

one of the friends in our flondon group has been making an impassioned case for Edward favouring regency-era looks and I must admit ive adopted this into my belief system, so thats leaked into his outfit here. i havent been keeping sam's outfit historically accurate tho so i dont know why i think this is something i need to clarify

this animation was done in Krita, which is a free open-source program that was pretty easy to get the hang of -- Jesse J Jones and Animate with Dermot had tutorials that helped me a lot if anyone else wants to try it!

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coworker: hey you should come look at the results of a ph test for a customer’s water

me: I’m king of busy rn

coworker: no really just come here

the ph test:

my honest reaction:

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These are so fun to make

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neighborhood giant cannibal in his pajamas blinds himself with his cursed kaleidoscope and forgets what he did today while Metallica plays in the background

Eyestrain edition under the cut!

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I was complaining to my friends about having trouble getting into the Parabolan War stuff Sam had been dragged into all the way up until Samuel got possessed for like 30 seconds and couldn't understand the ancient language he was speaking and YEAH OKAY IM ALL ABOUT THAT!!!! just casually use the local deacon as an empty vehicle to drive ur colleague home. normal favours to do for extremely trustworthy snakes.

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My favourite little x men thing is when someone is like "Give up, Magneto! You stand no chance against this plastic weapon/gun/suit I have built!"

And Magneto is like "I see. Whatever will I do."

and throws the surrounding infrastructure at them.

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had a thought, that maybe grace's reflection should get tiny monstery traits like animal eye shines and sharp teeth,,,, (on top of looking exactly like he did when he killed the other expedition survivor) since grace already sees himself kinda as a monster for what he did

and then i got way carried away

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guess who finally finished tHIS!!!

thanks everyone for waiting while I painstakingly coloured aND THEN SHADED this entire piece. I posted a link to the fullres coloured version on Artfight!

ANYWAYS I'M STILL DELIGHTED AT HOW DIFFERENT EVERYONE'S FALLEN LONDON OCS ARE; I LOVE THEM AND I WISH I HAD TIME AND ENERGY TO SHOVE MORE IN AND MAKE THIS A REAL WHERE'S WALLY EXPERIENCE but I also want to finally move onto other art once more ahahah. hopefully it's easier to find your characters now that it's coloured!!

Fallen London is a normal game that I am also very normal about.

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Your star has never guided you wrong.

I'm so emotionally compromised by child, you guys... I wasn't even expecting to be able to still see and pick out which one is my kid on the cavern roof, MUCH LESS how bright and special it is.... The fact that Sam can, in a weird way, spend time with his child at zee, looking up to the false-stars to guide him, rEALLY DID ME IN.......

Anyway more liveblogging and feelings under the cut,

[No hints or info about other post-ambition tie-ins in tags/replies/etc please! I like stumbling upon things myself]

so like immediately after finishing the ambition we were obviously all emotionally compromised, but also, we were already thinking about this --

WE DIDNT KNOW. SO LIKE TWO WEEKS LATER,

IM NEVER GOING TO BE OVER THIS

And then I had to deal with these feelings by drawing this picture. ANYWAY THANKS FALLEN LONDON FOR MAKING THIS THE PERFECT AMBITION FOR SAMUEL IN EVERY WAY.

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Love the concept of Bad Thing that provides protection from Even Worse Thing. This villan has dibs on killing me someday, so they’re not going to let anyone else do it. Person has a permanent illness that’s super hostile to any other type of infection. Lawful evil tyrant absolutely PISSED at chaotic evil invader killing their subjects. Person has been cursed by the gods but the curse supersedes all other hexes and magical ills. This shit absolutely charges my batteries.

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happy 4 years to the crater sized hole in my chest that has never quite gone away

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What's Sam's, like... actual job? He feels like such a Guy that none of them immediately stand out to me as being super fitting, but I'm curious to know what he. Y'know. Does for payment

Oh, great timing, he JUST got his specialisation the other day! Samuel's a Monster-Hunter! A job that is just So Normal.

I originally just kinda slid in this direction because Sam leaned SO heavily towards Dangerous activities and, not knowing at the time where the different jobs would end up, this seemed like the most respectable Physical Violence job path (in retrospect, I think a version of Sam who never went through The Shallows ES probably could've become a Licentiate). Ultimately, though, it really turned out to be a great pick. Hunting monsters while Making His Name was the perfect combo of "Samuel takes on absurdly dangerous task and is a force to be reckoned with" and "Samuel goes to the boatman by falling into his own traps repeatedly." The first couple of coils in the Labyrinth felt very correct for him (physically demanding tasks that involve getting bullied by animals a lot) with work he genuinely found very satisfying -- I've had a headcanon for a while that he still works there as a keeper when he's not caught up in Nonsense. YOURE REALLY CORRECT that he feels he should just have a Normal Job LMAO.

But then Monster-Hunter with its SACRED RITES, its SACRAMENT THAT CANNOT BE WITNESSED BY LIVING MEN, is just gonna slot perfectly into the part of his brain that once earnestly pledged himself to the service of the church and wants badly to be PART OF SOMETHING WITH RULES AND PURPOSE. This job also has the benefit of resulting in Sam's crew having to deal with constant bullshit where he jumps off the prow of his ship and flings himself into the zee to stab a crab instead of shooting it with canons like a normal person. ITS THE ONE TIME HE GETS TO BE COOL but I'm sure theyre all like oh my god. hes doing this again.

I debated the final specialisation choice for a while but finally picked Hierarch for him and was IMMEDIATELY REWARDED WITH SCRIPTURE ABOUT CRUSHING THE HEAD OF LEVIATHAN SO: PERFECT??? He can physically hunt heresies by stabbing them with a harpoon?????? THIS RULES LMAO

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THE WEDDING WENT GREAT IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING!!! Sam genuinely considered going through with it, as a mercy to this man who was clearly self-destructing and entirely unable to stop himself, but lost his temper when Poor Edward kicked his kid. Fortunately the kiddo is smart & kind enough to get them all the best ending.......... trapping Poor Edward in a nightmare forever by making him fall in love with it!!!!! I was REALLY taken with the description that being a nightmare is all Edward has ever wanted; like I guess it could just be his chemically altered feelings but IT RINGS TRUE TBH. LIKE YEAH, THAT MAKES.... HIS WHOLE DEAL MAKE A LOT OF SENSE ACTUALLY

anyway CAN WE TALK ABOUT EDWARD JUST BEING A CUTE ROSY-CHEEKED BOY UNDER THERE??????????????? I'm still not over this revelation. horrible nightmare man wears weird mask to hide his dark secret: he's cursed with the body of the softest fairest boy in all the land

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Describe your OC's worst memory or experience in three words or less.

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Explain yourself.