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Wings of Fire: Lies

Let's gooooo!

Edit: This fic is now crossposted on AO3.

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'Hey, Saroko? How's that comic coming along?'

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Be me.

Decide to start an OC centric WoF series.

Drop two one shots.

Spend the next few months writing an outline for the next part knowing it's gonna be roughly three times as long as Desperate Escape.

Realize you hate it and start from scratch.

Uuuuuuuuuuuuugh.

So, yeah. That's basically how my year went. How was yours?

Anyhow, the good news is that progress on the next part of my Wings of Fire series has been made. The outline definitely took the majority of my time, but the first chapter has also been fully drawn as my editor has demonstrated below.

They're already all cleaned up too! All that's left is to slap on the color, which I'm already doing. I'm aiming to finish around early December though I do want to push for earlier, so this isn't hanging over my Thanksgiving table.

On a related note, I finally got my act together and named this series! From now on, this'll be called the Mirror Shards AU. I've already gone back and tagged previous posts appropriately, and the fics are now under their own little series over on A03!

If you follow me for my silly, little guys thank you for being patient. I know it's been a year since my last fic in this series dropped, but, hopefully, updates will come more frequently. I am not kidding about how long that outline took to write. Drawing a twelve page comic did not even come close.

Until next time!

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Happy Halloween from these two goobers!

I confess I got inspiration from the Chikn Nugget shorts, but I mostly wanted an excuse to draw Pebble in a onesie.

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Professor Hershel Layton and his brother have been invited to give a talk at a local school, but there are certain matters Des needs to be informed of before they can proceed. Loosely tied to The Families of Jean Descole.

Rating: Teen and Up

Creator: @rainymeadows

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Was thinking about that Descole-Janice teamup AU I came up with a few months back and decided it needed Keats.

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My contribution to the Professor Layton Big Bang 2024!!!! A bit late relative to when it first opened but I made it…!

What’s it about you ask…? Well this reminds me of a puzz— I’m kidding. If you’re interested click to find out :)

I also did an art for this which looks something like this…

Well anyway, happy reading ^^

(Oh and do check out the artists who’ve done art on this too. They are all ✨✨✨)

@proflaytonbigbang

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Idk if this is a hot take

But I really want a Digimon Protagonist to have a Keramon partner, with this evolution line

I think it be a fun "don't judge a book by its cover" plot line

Maybe Keramon even use to be evil, but having a Digidestined with the Crest of Kindness helps them learn to be good

Though I would like them to keep their scary appearance

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Okay, this one has definitely been arranged by other people before, but I really wanted to take a shot at it myself.

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Day 365 of making low effort Des doodles until New World Of Steam releases

HAPPY ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF DAILY DES DOODLES!!! AND ON A SYCAMORE SUNDAY 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

to celebrate, I recreated the very first doodle I made by also including all other 364 doodles I drew over the year!! I'm very happy to not have missed a single day so far :"^]

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This was originally going to be a proper comic drabble. Then Duckweed got extra, and nothing could top this.

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No explanation. Just Duckweed and a goat.

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Bugs when you look under a rock:

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Day 291 of making low effort Des doodles until New World Of Steam releases

I'm off to sleep for a couple of days. Can you guys watch him for me?

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Oh, one PL fan who gave me the excuse to info dump, let me share my vision for a Descole-Janet spinoff game/story.

(Spoilers for Azran Legacy below)

The story would take place roughly after Unwound Future. Maybe even during NWOS. Descole has sort of remade himself into a Robin Hood-esque anti-hero targeting people illegally selling or collecting ancient artifacts, some of whom are even dangerous. One day, he hears about the stories' McGuffin is going to go on display as part of a massive event being hosted by some rich bastard. This guy isn't too important to the story past this, but for now let's just call him 'Strater V. Illian.'

Cue Janet. After the events of Diva she's continued her career as a famous singer and was invited by Mr. Illian at the event in question. But in the middle of the performance, the McGuffin is stolen.

But not by Descole.

It turns out, a third party had their eye on the McGuffin and swooped in before Desole had the chance. I sadly don't have a brilliant name or design for them, but they're basically the most over exagerated phantom thief you could imagine. He doesn't even know what the McGuffin's significance is; just that stealing it will give them fame and fortune.

Both Descole and Janice chase after them, but only manage to each get a part of the artifact while the thief makes off with the third. And here in lies how Des and Janice are forced to work together. See, the McGuffin is actually part of a three piece set: two act as a pair of magical (or sufficiently advanced scientific) handcuffs and the last is the key. And guess which part the thief got away with~~~

Yeah, I went the whole 'handcuffed together' plot, but there was no other way I could think of that would get Janice to work with Descole. She would have the cops on his ass if she so much as caught him working in the local Tesco. So, handcuff plot.

It is, thankfully, more forgiving than most. They work out that the 'cuffs' have a pretty long 'chain' of about two miles, so they don't need to be glued to the hip all the time. Because I'm a very nice, forgiving person.

Hah. No, I'm a bastard. The two miles gives them both some false hope, but it quickly turns out to be much tougher to navigate through than if they were actually handcuffed. Yes, they can work apart, but they still need to coordinate where they're going and what they're looking for to avoid accidents which requires much more foresight in my opinion. If they get too far, they start yanking each other around, and for a pair of globe trotters who treat the planet itself like their own backyard that leads to a lot of problems.

They also work out that they can't go the cops even if Des didn't have a criminal record. If they did, their pieces would likely be locked away never to see the light again, and there was no chance of the key being used to free them. Plus, I'm tempted to add a fourth group who are also after the McGuffin. (I'm a little tempted to make it a Targent holdover group led by Bloom, but I don't know what his final fate was beyond getting arrested.)

So, they work together, desperately trying to catch up to the Phantom Thief, mostly trying to work out his targets and elaborate plans in order to head him off and get the key back. Sometimes even keeping him alive when the Targent wannabes get a little trigger happy.

But the real adventure is watching the two not kill themselves. Janice has every right in the world to be mad at Des, and Descole is very Regretscole but makes no effort to ask for forgiveness. So for the first few chapters Janice would investigate by herself while Descole did the same in disguies. Leading to some rather hilarious bits.

But, Janice does eventually learn about Descole, his motivations, his past, his relation to her old professor. And both of his sacrifices back at the Azran Temple. She still doesn't forgive him for ED but it's a very sobering moment to realize that the person you once considered 'soulless' has more soul than most decent people you know.

(And when she learns more about Targent and what happened to Des' family. Suddenly realizing that the man who put you and others through a Squid Game and went on a temper tantrum with a giant mecha was actually the lesser evil you could've dealt with must be terrifying.)

Descole, for his part, gets a pretty fair share of grief from Janice, but having her along actually helps him put his actions into perspective. He's just running from himself and his past at this point. He was already under a mental strain prior to story, but Janice is a physical representation of his actions come back to haunt him. It's slow and under slight duress at first (her confronting him over small things that triggered him and make him act off), but he does trusting her as his assistant. When they start working together for real, he even decides to go out under his true identity.

It doesn't start so well, but it's something.

I will cap off by admitting that I don't think this story would end with the two becoming friends, and Layton would not be making an appearance aside from passing comments. I just think there's too much bad blood between Janice and Descole for the two to develop a good friendship at this point, but mutual respect is attainable. As for Layton, he'd steal the spotlight too easily, and as much as I want to see the Bronev bros reconcile, Des needs to get his shit together first.

That's pretty much all I've got for this idea. Anyone is free to make suggestions.