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i've wanted to make this ever since i started watching the untamed because of the "first scene" line. now that i'm finally done watching, i had to take a crack at it

wei wuxian, main character of all time

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Well guess what I'm a shonen guy now. Just started Fullmetal Alchemist and I'm REALLY enjoying it so far! I feel like it might turn into an obsession in the future... But we'll see:) Now have this illustration of Edward that I'm kinda proud of. Tried some new things in the rendering style and I think it turned out pretty good. Gonna do Alphonse later when I figure out how to draw that goddamn armor

Also if you've been there for my Treasure Planet era you know that I have a thing for metal prosthetics

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Toby Fox has CONFIRMED Chapter 3&4 is coming out next year!!

(On another note, I am aware there's been a lot of Toby Fox posting lately that I haven't covered! Transparently, it's been a difficult month mental health wise and I haven't been very focused on the blog. I apologize. I hope I can get back to posting soon!)

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Last encounter with Kitty

(Ok, technically not. I'm not sure why I decided to draw this scene and not the last one 🤡)

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a scholarly conversation about the future

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It's perfect that Wei Wuxian's birthday is on Halloween but what's also perfect is the fact he is kinda like an urban legend himself.

Imagine in a mordern kinda setting, there would so many people dressing up as yiling laozu for Halloween and wei wuxian is not a judgmental person at all but he would be rating people's outfits like "hm that one is good but just not it" "yeah that one gets the vibe accurately" "oh that one is 10/10"

he would literally be throwing a party for local ghosts and celebrate his birthday lol

Wei wuxian would love Halloween so much, finally a day where he can celebrate his craft.

Anyways happy birthday to Wei Wuxian, our kindest, most badass and genius necromancer!! Love him to the moon and to saturn🎂🎊🥳💜💜

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Second encounter with Kitty

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mutuals you’d visit the cemetery with

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BOOP ME

WAGE WAR ON MY NOTIFICATIONS

RENDER MY ACTIVITY TAB UNUSABLE

BOOP ME

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I'm kinda proud that I knew about these before. I really like to apply it to the main characters of Bart Trilogy:

Nathaniel - in denial about his true self

Kitty - oblivious about the ways of the world

Bartimaeus - lies about his true feelings

do you all see my vision here

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First encounter with Kitty

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I sketched some Stroud girlies, old men and vampires

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Anyone else think a lot about how at the end of canon, Lan Wangji has had time to mature for 10+ years into a guy in his mid-30s, but Wei Wuxian still has the life experience and general maturity of a war-traumatized early 20-something?

Because like. Wei Wuxian died young and he died tragically, and everyone who was around him then that's still there after he's resurrected has gotten to live their lives. They got to mature. They've had 13/16 years to heal (or not heal -_-) and learn who they are. To become fully realized adults outside of the pressures of war. And Wei Wuxian hasn't had that. If you believe MXTX's interview that circulates on this site sometimes, he spent those 16 years in a suspended state of agony. And even if you don't believe that, he was still dead. Non-existant.

For Wei Wuxian, the war is fresh. The pain is fresh. He has no idea what's doing because he's barely an adult, if admittedly a highly skilled one for his age. The world has moved on around him and he has stayed in place. What does he do with that?

Wei Wuxian had no choice but to pretend that he's moved on, too, because that war that took so much from him was almost two decades ago, now. The Wen Remnants have been dead for over 10 years. What use is it to dig up old hurts? Except, those hurts are still hurting him.

When he died, Wei Wuxian was helping care for Lan Sizhui. Wen Yuan. When he died, Lan Wangji raised A-Yuan with the Lan. If Wei Wuxian was dead for 13/16 years and A-Yuan was 3/4 when he died, then Lan Sizhui is about his age, or very close to it.

This is the child he was raising. This child is now his peer.

Wei Wuxian has memories of war and tragedy, but no one to talk to. The juniors, who are closest to him in relative age, haven't known war, and everyone who has known it has moved on. He's trapped between generations, and that has to be so incredibly isolating.

Jiang Yanli, the Wen Remnants, Wen Qing of particular note, all of them died shortly before he did. Did he ever really get to grieve them? Will he be allowed to now? Especially with his reputation. Especially with the number of people who would really prefer him to simply leave the past in the past. Especially with all the people who think he is the cause of the deaths he wishes to grieve.

Will he be allowed to mourn, if the cultivation world thinks these deaths are his fault? Or that these people don't deserve to be grieved?

Wei Wuxian has the misfortune of being a man who is a decade out of time, and he will have to learn to cope with that, but how does he account for the missing years? When the pain is still fresh for him, how does he find a place in a society that has long since moved on?

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Happy late birthday to @jonathanstroud. Bartimaeus got here from the Other Place to say hi, Lockwood got you a cup of the finest tea and Scarlett is gonna try not to swear much (she pays extra today)

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I read some post about Nathaniel's relationship with alcohol and the way he uses it to cope with stress (u know like normal teenagers do) and I loved this thought of Nat becoming so dependent at some point that he actually had to physically restrain himself from drinking in order to be able to work and the only times he allowed himself to relax were Devereux's parties

The post on the topic is by @winter2468

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doodle Nat

I forgot to make him wear boots…