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what did you see? what did you see out there?

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🗡 yap hour ive been quiet (not yapping about it here) but its about my ideas for talons story progression and demons and how everything eventually falls into place just for me (i twist everything to be good for me)

but my thought process for talons 'story progression' ever since the kat comic was that they either have to figure out their own life without marcus around (boo thats character growth), or sink even deeper into being 'the blade's shadow' as their purpose in life/being the true heir by following his teaching better than kat etc. and vowing to avenge marcus. as much as they would love to kill the grand general they are also sadly very fatalistic and might aim instead to 'expose' swain as being a monster/not human to incur change into happening or something. so learning about demons, what and how swain has been up to, etc.

and this has been what ive thought about for a while now, and with all of this atakhan lore, and the leblanc update dropping this year? i have been quietly feasting. plotting scheming etc.

le blanc's line for talon now IN GAME supports my thinking too.

"The Du Couteau name is worthless, - aim higher."

which is very fun and pointed for so many reasons and i think leblanc has many, many ways to try and convince talon to work with or for her because she has a lot of answer they seek but being missing-dad mode talon will point the blame at anyone and everyone for him dying - including the black rose for not having his deal with them be enough to kill swain.

i also want to explore talon Actually learning about demons and those crazy enough to actually hunt them because talon has only ever really 'hunted' humans before this is drastically different fields and i like imagining the different shenanigans this can create. learning more and more about demons and just Seeing atakhan is so fun as well.

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the lack of texture isnt helping but the hair looks so greasy.... when did you last shower.....

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Where once they would have jeered at a mortal tricked into servitude by devilish acts, Talon cannot help but let the strings of their chest tumour pull at their lips. Taught and pitying. Wandering eyes never steer far from the animated claw, inspecting it in turn with head canting from side to side. "Can't help the speculations that be gnawin' at my mind, over what inspired you to strive in this field." After pausing a moment, an outstretched, ignited hand reroutes to the collar of their overcoat, adjusting how it sat on their shoulder. They meet his eyes with his turn, but find the contents atop the workshop counter more curious as they continued their answer. "Clockwork Angels were once the things of myth, renewed now with one galavantin' over open plains. A husk to shelter the divine without a home."

Talon's searching pauses, watching Viktor instead for a reaction to their words. They do not wait long, for the anticipation would make them queasy. "Been wondering what angel blood would be worth to you, Doctor. Or if your work went no further than caging weary, mortal souls."

❛ it goes. ❜ it isn't his work anymore. viktor wanted to give the wretched a second chance at life. longevity. eternity, even. mordekaiser wants tin soldiers to reign over. nevertheless ... ❛ what i'm capable of mortal medicine can only dream of achieving. ❜ words of hubris, but delivered in such a bitter tone its clear the doctor's been well and truly punished for it.

there's no room to entertain in the workshop. there's a single stool, but viktor claims it for himself. he stretches out his leg, fiddling with a brace that wraps around his calf and thigh. whilst his attention is seemingly elsewhere, the metal claw at his back turns to the stranger, as though regarding them. there's a white glow, dimming then brightening, where the three talons meet.

❛ you've come this far, knowing what i do. ❜ it's not a question. viktor lifts his gaze back to the stranger, eyes narrowed in consideration. ❛ —why? ❜

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returning to my roots of posting a bunch of rough sketches & not elaborating before i fall unconscious

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Stardew Valley Dollmaker

tagged by: @dolls-runeterran-dollhouse ♡ tagging: you if you havent played around with this yet !

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imagining the most self indulgent writing ever...

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they are canceling me for the way i deal with grief. also, for the infinite number of destroyed universes

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"I should have found another way out of the reckoner barracks."

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🗡 graphic design update.......

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 “The eyes of Noxus are always watching.”

"Entertained by blood split for show and expansion. For results. For falterings."

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the stars upon ye : a great and terrible reckoning approacheth . aye , before the sun doth wane , thy belly shall know torment most foul — of a meal ill-advised and morsel cursed by hubris .

Hunger gnaws at their innards, without sustenance for untold hours now. It had been easily dismissed while attention flittered about scribed records, scattered documents, and their own, hastily scribbled notes to connect them all. An informational banquet for the mind, of interstellar patterns and the alignment of galaxies, but one that could ne'er quench those mortal pangs. A hand clutches at their torso, focus broken from their lack of findings to see that the bright light that once flooded through the tall library window had lowered into a amber glow. When had they begun pulling out old records, again..?

The desk is hastily organised - papers shoved between tombs more dust than calculations now - before the Stargazer stands. And finds balance from the table's edge as hands clutch at it, exhaustion pulling them down.

Gathering their senses and shaking the dread of an ill omen, Talon marches toward the observatory's catering hall with newfound motivation, no doubt there will be a few meals they could borrow from, or quickly search the pantry to take a few ingredients. Nothing that would be terribly missed.

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🗡 i miss my assassin so much...

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@essence-flux-primed explains: "Look, normally I only repurpose things from tombs, or people who steal from tombs, but it's been a long time since I last had a hot shower, and I'm willing to compromise my morals for a private moment with some conditioner and a bar of soap. So." He holds the map protectively in one hand, just out of grabbing distance from his new reticent friend. "Maybe we can come to a deal."

They had moved toward him in an attempt to snatch the map away while he was babbling on, only for it to slip past their reach, past the point without getting uncomfortably close to one another. Realising how frustratingly childish it all was they step back from the treasure hunter. The thought of threatening or even just slitting a throat passes fleetingly; but he is useful alive, and talkative, still. Talon can manage to be cordial for this exchange. ... They note his sometimes strange use of words.

The assassin is still as they thought, cloaking shadows cast about threatened to pull them back into the darkness. It was nowhere near the strangest barter they'd encountered - one of the more backhanded ones, though. Believing him to be nothing more than a plucky foreigner searching out the thrill of adventure would be a beginner's mistake. "There will be many things you can repurpose. From conquests before either of our time. Things better taken from those who keep them, if that helps your morals." There was so much kept hidden, forgotten, or locked away in these twisting caverns, Talon is certain there will be something to pique his interest. Confident in their offering, they step forward and hold out a gloved hand. For the map.

"I will share the directions to a fine bathhouse."

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having a 'guy whose only seen boss baby watching a second movie' moment

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rat mention !

this wasn't what i was expecting at all and yet these lines are great. bonus other du couteau siblings lines under the cut

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odyssey talon train sketches under the cut... i think i wanna try out 1-2 more outfit ideations before i stick to one