#<- technically that's her there not shadow LOL

[royhasissues]

Thank you for bringing this up because I wanted to talk about Jamity, as well as bugbears in general.

First off, I love Jamity, she's very fun. I have not gotten to Zorbek yet, but I've heard a little bit about him and I'm very excited (Torbek is Zorbek reincarnated into an even worse bugbear).

I'm only on ep 2, but I appreciate the focus on bugbears because they're such an interesting race. They're goblinoids, but they're also technically fey creatures, which is why they're more rare and really weird. Mikey also describes them as both feline and bear-like, which felt pretty accurate to me.

Torbek does this a few times, but bugbears really can just like... melt into the shadows, it's a racial feature lol. They're built for stealth which is why Torbek was a rogue back before he was a part of the main cast. That's generally what they're best suited for.

Jamity does this in episode 2, where she shows off to the party by basically disappearing into the night. This might not sound, like, very important, but I'm a stickler for details and consistency, so I appreciated the characterization.

Also, as a fic writer, I am validated in my own characterization of bugbears within Avantris canon. 'Cause, like, I know that bugbears are rare and not generally liked, but that doesn't mean the same is true in Avantris. It depends on your DM and how they want their world to be. Because the same could be said for tieflings, but from what I've witnessed, tieflings in Avantris don't get a lot of shit like they would in general D&D canon. I'm not complaining, of course. My Torbek hcs hold more water lol.

I've always thought Torbek had a rough time pre-Carnival Lecroux because of the scarcity of bugbears and the prejudice around them. Not to mention literally everything else he has going on, of course lol. People are afraid of him because spooky bedtime stories and such, so he's less likely to receive help and chooses to stay away from people. But hiding and stealing food was easy for him given his bugbear traits, so he was largely able to get by. I also think being a bugbear is the only reason he was able to handle the Witchlight canisters and not outright die (and likely something to do with the Duke). I think this is actually stated in canon... it's been awhile.

Anyway, I love bugbears and I really like Jamity. I'm excited for more from her as I just finished ep 2 before writing this.

This is my PSA to watch Beneath Dark Wings. Do it. Watch it.

[tirededandgay]

I just realized I forgot to answer the "Who Knows" Question lol!

Charlie: Saw a little kid passed out in the ball pit (Eclipse when he figured out how to get illusion disks to work) and immediately named herself their best friend! She isn't fully aware until Eclipse tries to Attack a mirror(silly Willy billy)and his soul pops out of him. (That's a recurring thing lately; there are random moments of just hysteria. That's actually Eclipse's AI shutting off due to overheating*cough cough* William Fucking with him *cough cough*or needing to charge, and Susie is taking full and utter control.)

Andrew: Eclipse was fine with talking to Andrew through shadow(using ASL) whenever he was blacked out, Andrew just kinda caught on.

Earth: Sometimes a technically 21-year-old dead kid who has been ripping up moon plushies for years just needs someone to talk to, she has only been there to calm him down, in reality, Susie is actually TERRIFIED of Earth--but Override assures he at least trusts her. He kinda sees her as a mother/sister kinda thing, but with some underlying fear. Like cannon Eclipse mixed with how SUNPEA acts with Moon or C!Eclipse

William: ...so uh...remember when I mentioned the moments of hysteria? The blacking out? The fear of Earth? The fact he even knows what an illusion disk is? Yeah, Eclipse is being influenced by William, not in a total Vanny way but they do talk from time to time. Against Eclipse's will, all that good old Willy does is...shove Eclipse back into the day he died over and over and any other traumatic nightmares/memories and twisting Earth into a monster just to mess with him. Doing a number on his sleep schedule.

Ballora and Sun did meet "Susie" through Charlie in the one episode where Eclipse was turned human(illusion disk, its actually how William got into Eclipse's head since he helped Eclipse make it and coded it to be very easily hackable.) but they have no idea that Eclipse is Susie, and TSAMS moon has met him.

Through less savory situations.

The villain ark went crazy with the psychological torture.

Fun facts about my TEAPs AU!!

Eclipse has a soul, no, like an actual soul. It's a version of Cassidy, named Susie Edwards, who was Moon's biggest fan and first kill...or IG kill codes since Moon has no memory of it. I have its cause of death fully written out for me to draw...eventually...(I also changed Susie's design recently!)

Susies death happened on the 4th week the daycare was open, they were a HUGE fan of Moon and hated Sun, and they were also the problem child...biting kids...bullying kids...breaking toys, throwing fits...the works.

So, one night while in time out after biting Suns rays and throwing scissors at one of the other kids, it drew a "Better sun" *Cough cough*...just what Eclipse looks like *cough cough* and waited until naptime(hiding in the ballpit) to show it to Moon. While bragging, Moon picked them up(practically breaking their arm counting by the fact he was holding it by the arm) and then dropped them down from as high as you can go into the ballpit.

Their head hit the edge of the ballpit and they died from impact.

They were tethered to killcode out of spite and didn't gain full conscious until "Eclipse" gained control.

Going to present time, Eclipse HATES going soul form, but if he did his body would power off and then Susie...exsists! The problem is Susie is chained to the body(literally) meaning he cannot get more than a few steps away.

He died at 14, and sees himself as responsible for Charlie and the stitchlets rather than their parental figure.

Eclipse is TERRIFIED of heights. He will squeal like a little girl if he ascends too high. Thats why Charlie puts him in air jail whenever he gets a bit too mean.

His shadow looks like his ghost, which can be creepy when he's asleep and his shadow is just smiling at you. That is also why Charlie can sense him.

Also Andrew is forever banned from Monty Golf.

PT:2, a QNA!! ask me about any TEAPS character and ill respond! with this AU!! Also I need AU name ideas lol

[frostios]

I was apart of the @sthbigbang as a mod but also as an artist and pinch hitter! This art is for @eccentricglimpse 's fic Walk a Mile in my Shoes, a story about bodyswapping between Amy, Sonic, and Shadow and the chaos (and romance?...) that ensues from that.

The other artists for this group were @halloweenorangesoda and @peachy-keenss so make sure to check out their works too! And all of the Sonic Big Bang work in general!

[puppppppppy]

vincent!! augusta and anton's son <3

(anton belongs to @poicyss)

[tokyoteddywolf]

"Not my clowns, not my circus."

So.... that upsurge of Shadow Mewtwo art, huh lads?

Listen her job is to purify corrupted Gaia energy, aka the Shadow Stones, but they're not her problem if they're a different world than hers. Obsidian has enough on her plate XD

She's the equivalent of a very overworked secretary keeping everything running smoothly. The little old lady who has all the codes and passwords and if she's fired, the company goes down with her :) In this case, her entire planet.

So yeah, she's not touching that hot mess with a dimension long pole, lmao XD

[invinciblerodent]

Before release, I always kind of thought of Ver's usual haunts in Minrathous being part of an industrial-ish area (factories, docks, the surrounding blue collar residentials, etc.), but I've been thinking, and with Dock Town being what it is in-game (and with what it is to Neve), I think I prefer her being more tied to one of the (no doubt many) entertainment- and nightlife districts of the city.

I'm thinking of one of those moderately seedy parts of town that have pubs/taverns/hookah lounges/drag bars/"specialty shops"/etc. and little mom-and-pop eateries that are definitely not fronts for something all lining the streets on the bottom floors of workers' apartment complexes, and at least three larger nightlife establishments (like a casino [gambling den], a circus [it's a cointoss whether you'll see the best burlesque act or a cagefight], and something they only affectionately call a "dancehall") are all sharing view of the same street.

As of right now, I'm tentatively calling it Redbrick Ridge in my mind, because Minrathous seems to use primarily light-colored stones and red and teal magelights (and I think poorer, mainly Soporati-owned places using red accent-bricks to imitate the red of magic would be a cool touch), but I also like the idea that colloquially, it'd more be known as the Catsbane Quarter, or just Catsbane (after the codex entry for the Sun-Blonde Vint in DAI)- in part because of the way a certain Tevene alcohol is typically served, and in part because, like Dock Town, it's also home to a large colony of feral/stray cats.

(Maybe one of the ways you could easily spot an outsider is that they'd be the ones who say that something is "on the Ridge" or "in Redbrick", but the people who actually live there would say that they're from Catsbane, or refer to the people there as "cats". Like, "where in the city are you from?" "oh, I'm a cat.")

(Lots of fun cat-wordplay for a more "low-class" area, too... "A cat may look at a king" being a bit of a slogan for non-mage and slave rights, or an expression of commiserating over injustice? "All cats are grey in the dark", both as a "we're all equal here", and as a way to say "no officer, I didn't see anything"? Someone suspected to be an informant is someone who "wears a bell"? So many opportunities, and they all work really nicely for a place with pronounced Shadow Dragon presence!)

Since Ver was a (military-trained) Soporati guard/rent-a-cop before joining up with Varric, I originally figured that having her mainly guard (and spy on-) slave-keeping construction sites was a fitting thing, but I think now, knowing both her character and the game as I do, I prefer her as a security guard during the week, and a bouncer during the weekends.

Like I like her not as a go-to problem-solver like Neve, but more like... some sort of a neighborhood Red Jenny, someone who somehow (at least tangentially) knows everyone in her bubble.

And like... she lives in one of the dingy little apartments above a moderately run-down lunch-place (at first I thought it would be run by her uncle, now I'm more picturing an older person who emphatically calls her things like "columba mea" and acts like a doting grandmother, but isn't actually related to her). Her friends are all line cooks, busboys, dancers, dishwashers and all kinds of entertainers, as well as bar owners, bartenders and barflies, not a small percentage of them Liberati- which, with her reputation as a useful person to know and the open secret of her being a Shadow, would be something that probably would have drawn someone like Varric to her very easily. (I mean, he primarily seems to network by just... going to bars and asking the drunkest people still capable of speech about who's worth knowing, lol.)

Plus, I also really like the idea that if the owners/workers at a place know that someone is about to cause trouble, they'd see if she's around, ask her to step in for the night, and maybe crack some heads together.

Like imagine being a big, hotshot wannabe-Venatori swinging their metaphorical dick around over a game of Archon, and in comes this quite pretty, but overall unremarkable woman who is kissing 5'7" from the bottom and is not particularly intimidating, but she still lays you the absolute fuck out to dry without breaking a sweat. Probably one of the top ten most embarrassing ways for that night to end, lol.

[summertimemusician]

Linktober Shadow Day 6

Shadow Beast

The Twilight Princess fan in me really came out on this one huh? I blame the sleep deprivation. We never quite addressed the effects of the Twili Magic on Twilight and how it's only sheer force of will and the fact he's so darn kind, Midna's influence and Time teaching him the Song of Healing first being the main factor in making sure he doesn't fall huh? Even more so than the One Cutscene. We also need to talk more about the fact we technically kill Midna's people and how by the end of it all Twi is so changed by the Twilight Realm who's it's own can of worms that, much like Time he can't quite go home as himself me thinks, as a treat to myself

Mostly Twilight x Reader, this goes out to all of the folks who never quite recovered from Twilight Princess and the fact we never got that sequel (I mean it gave us BOTW and TOTK and Wild, but at what cost?), but can be read as Link x Reader either on the platonic or romantic.

Don't think there's any warning this time but might edit later if needed.

Actually yeah there is one warning

TW:

References to body horror typical to Twilight Princess, though I recommend not reading it I'd you're squeamish period.

Even after so long, you and Twilight could still remember the beauty and solemnity of the Twilight Realm, with it’s zircon skies with clouds of trapped fire and rains of viper obsidian.

The silence of the infection upon the realm of light broken only by the echoes of the howling elegy of the Twili and Interlopers who came before creeping over the land like rot and wither over flowers, the lament of the lost spirits of the people and animals of Hyrule falling over your spirit like a shroud, a shared hymm from two worlds reality had been twisted, only both of it’s princess, one filled the luster of empyreal sorrow in her mind and one with the scorch abyssal fury in her heart knowing to see the reflective tragedy befallen to their people. With Link as the one who restored the memory of what once was in both worlds as divinity and calamity sang in his bones and you a witness to the restoration of harmony to the discordant symphony, the two different songs of light and shadow refusing to let go of either of you in an eternal duet.

(Once touched by magic, it shall never leave the one if holds onto Twilight may have been the one with the Beast in his soul, with the howl of a wolf, the bite of shades in his veins and the lament of innocents taking precedence over anything purely because he learned how to silence the whispers of the one’s who made a grab for heaven’s throat and we’re pushed in the cracks of reality for their prideful vánitas even as he could taste it in the back of his tongue, twining around his ribs and overgrowing into his shattered mirror heart like vines, flowering with the divinity and eternal nature of the Hero’s Spirit, already having the hunt of the Fierce Deity in it’s veins and the remains of cursed divinity welcoming the new aspect merrily so he could bear it. The song of the innocent wrongly punished among the sinners rang into your mind, scratched at your skin and dug it’s claws around your throat, chocking you with sorrow and regret, more willing to leave gouges than to let go of someone’s who’s looked into the reverse side of the sacred realm and wept with grief for it’s people and the curse of it’s beauty.

It would never leave you, Link or Zelda, who learned who love the darkness the way Midna did, madness and unsightly delight and all.)

While the people of Hyrule merely became trapped as observers at best, if they were lucky, Midna’s raging grief and resentment quickly became obvious, once she revealed that rotten Zant had done to her and her people, twisted into a new form, distorted in body and trapped in mind like the animals and beasts of Hyrule, their pain driving them in becoming feral attack hounds for the usurper, their howling screams as much sorrow, wailing in an attempt to let their agonized, tortured souls to escape from it’s mouth, a futile attempt to flee from the strain of reality forgetting their true form in favor of Zant’s twisted design, of being used as sentient canvases for cruelty and ruthlessness, of their will being stepped over in favor of corrupting recreation.

Of how it only didn’t quaff down at Midna’s mind because of the nature of her ephemerality, fully beloved by the Realm of Darkness, of how she loathed him for it and wouldn’t wish her fate of that of her people’s on any living or dead soul, once she came to love the Realm of Light through Zelda’s sacrifice.

Which was why, when you saw three of the victims of the telltale twisting from darkness utilized with the intent to drive one insane, a familiar looking plate of stone engraved on the remains of ashes from their identity, the curling of distorted, solid darkness making crooked mishapen manes, bent out of shape from their too long torso and long, long arms adorned with twitching, deformed claws, you feel very justified in way your blood froze, holding onto Wild’s arms and yanking with all you had so his shot will miss, his yelp of surprise swallowed by the bone cracking, blood curdling screech from one of the beasts as a Skyward Strike grazed it’s petrified flesh.

You feel something warm drip down your ears, taste the promise of violence and the cry of lost souls on the back of your tongue and swallow it down as the memory of the Twilight Realm attempted to bite and crack your ribcage to quaff down your heart, to devour it bones and all, calling out in desperation, “Don’t! That’s a person!”

Sky freezes, as still as a statue, Legend curses the heavens crimson in a way you are so glad Wind isn’t around to hear as he retreats Twilight snarls, the wolf in him revolted and disgusted, you wonder if the Twilight is singing in his mind too as he restrains himself from reaching for the crystal as nails just a tad too sharp invite droplets of blood to one hand, grimm as a graveyard “We need to get them together anyway, felling just one won’t be enough.”

You grimace, releasing Wild, keeping your eye on the Shadow Beasts and another on your group, pointedly not mentioning the twitch in Four, amethyst clouding his gaze and the prism of his eyes turning gray with memories you and Twilight both knew all too well, of the grimace in Time’s otherwise stony countenance, you’d wished to avoid bloodshed of whoever was turned against their will, but you and Twilight both knew that might not be possible, death, unfortunately, might be the greatest mercy you can grant these poor souls.

(The Twilight is harmonizing in your ears, jeering, you feel the Interlopers insanity and the Twili’s lament on your teeth. As lovely as it could be cruel, the merry feeling upon meeting, the sorrow at a parting.

If you ever see the Shadow, you might just try indulging the echo by offering it’s blood as tribute. You'd make it hurt. The fact it learned the spell used to deform reality in such a way was cruel and vile.)

“Legend, how is your magic?” shoots Warriors, analyzing, calculating, it snaps the purple back into Four’s gaze, brings his mind back to focus as he reaches into his inventory for his Moon Pearl, Twilight is circling the beasts with single minded purpose, herding them together and prowling as he would as a wolf, Wild thankfully listened to your warning and had switched from the more destructive Flame and Lightning Arrows to ice ones. It doesn’t contain them for long but it gives a few precious seconds to strategize.

Legend catches on, switching to the Ice Rod on one hand and grasping his own Moon Pearl with the other, Sky has another Skyward Strike ready, but doesn’t release it, you switch from your sword to accepting a Magic Rod tossed at you from Wild, “Good enough.”

You breath in shakily, the symphony of the Twilight Realm has quieted, more lament than anthem as it’s Hero steps back, returning to your side, he nods grimly, “... Then, let’s end this quickly.”

You know your will boys will do their best to heal them, and failing that, you hope that they’ll hear the requiem of the Twili rather than the lament once they’re at peace, that they'll find some form of threnody.

It is a horrible thing, to be forced to die as a beast.

[akkivee]

Do you think Shadow and Kuukou could get along

i originally had a response talking about hearts, trying to compare how similar sonic and amy’s are which is why shadow and kuukou would get along in that a capacity that shadow would allow (kinda similar to sonic and shadow’s relationship)

but i think it would be really fun to imagine shadow on a mission of some sort that gets crashed by kuukou bc he wanted to do some activity and thought shadow was the best fit for it and kuukou just tags along, helping him out with the mission so that way when it’s over, shadow can’t escape and kuukou can drag him off to that thing he wanted to do lol

[infizero]

a single mom raising a family of four 💪😥💗

[ectoplasmer]

actually no I think it’d be really funny if my hs s/i and my ygo s/i switched places

[backbak100]

Funny how only 1/3 of the apprentices from AvoS actually survived, and only 1 of them are still in ShadowClan. Hm. Yeah. Amazing right?

[IMAGE ID: The ShadowClan apprentices from A Vision of Shadows lined up in a forest. Sleekpaw, Needlepaw, Beepaw, Juniperpaw, Yarrowpaw, and Strikepaw. Describing left to right. Sleekpaw is light cream with an slightly orange-cream muzzle and stripe on her back. She has a white chest and orange-cream paws, tail-tip and green eyes. She has her mouth open talking to Needlepaw who is to her right. Needlepaw is a light gray with a lighter gray muzzle, dash on her chest, paws, tail-tip, and green eyes. She is looking at Sleekpaw with a happy expression, her mouth has a smile that shows her teeth. Next to them Juniperpaw is looking slightly behind him to talk to Strikepaw. He is a plain black with green eyes and has his mouth open as if he’s talking. Strikepaw‘s mouth has a closed smile and is dark brown with darker brown stripes, tail tip, and orange eyes. In front of Strikepaw and Juniperpaw, Beepaw and Yarrowpaw are crouched down, both with their mouths open. Beepaw is white with a black front paw and wrist, ears, tail, and blue eyes. He has a long stripe that follows the top of his back. Yarrowpaw is a dark ginger with darker paws and wrists, stripes, ears, tail, and yellow eyes. END ID]

[brutal-out-here]

Now why didn’t anyone tell my the Kahn family canonically moved to Louisiana and then there’s also the freaking X men in the end credits!?!?

[enbyboiwonder]

I thought so. I thought “enervate” meant “weaken.” Ysuran has a spell called Enervation that drains HP from the enemies in front of him, and I keep thinking it’s the one that lowers their dmg, but that’s Ray of Enfeeblement. Outside of BGDA2, Enervation has a chance to kill an enemy outright, and if it doesn’t, it temporarily reduces their dmg. I think. The wiki says it “suppresses their lifeforce” and also that it will “increase an undead creature’s un-lifeforce.” So does it also deal damage? Decrease CON? Urg, this is one of those spells I never use in NWN so I don’t know…

I should probably be playing that instead of BGDA2 tbh, so I can rework Ysuran’s spells for Misao. He’s missing some you’d expect a necromancer to have (Control Undead, anyone??), and some don’t work like you’d expect (this one possibly, plus his Animate Dead is actually Summon Undead). And that’s not even counting that I wanna have Misao learn some cleric spells too!

[alpinelogy]

The more I listen to LeaF the more I am annoyed she doesnt put more of her songs on Spotify. Come on your stuff is already hard to track down dont make it worse

[violetsareblue-selfships]

himeko, serval & blade for the ask game :3

hi hi mika!! ty for the ask! this got long so under a readmore :3

Himeko:

Sexuality Headcanon: Either a lesbian or bisexual… idk I just know she likes girls so~

Gender Headcanon: Honestly, I don't have one? I tend to see her as cis

A ship I have with said character: Is it too early to say me yet? Even if she's still only a potential f/o lol; also I've seen some faint art pieces for her and Kafka which were fun so that's an option

A BROTP I have with said character: The Express Crew - Welt, Dan Heng, March, Pom-Pom, and either Caelus or Stelle - they give such a good found family vibe ^-^

A NOTP I have with said character: I don't have one for her

A random headcanon: She can draw really well! She likes drawing out landscapes of planets that she visits (or if she can't while she's there - she canonically has a good memory so she'd do it as soon as she gets on the express afterward).

General Opinion over said character: She's very pretty!! I can't wait to pull her in-game and also I wanna see her go on a mission with us like Welt currently is <3

Serval:

Sexuality Headcanon: Lesbian - I literally cannot see her with a guy lol

Gender Headcanon: Again I don't have much of one, though, genderfluid would be interesting with her

A ship I have with said character: Again, is it too early to say me? Lol, but also there was something there with her and Cocolia when they were younger

A BROTP I have with said character: I love the dynamic between her and Gepard like so much! (also putting the literal meaning of 'bro' in brotp here lol)

A NOTP I have with said character: I mean, there's an obvious no here (as mentioned above) beyond that… I don't have one.

A random headcanon: Whenever one of the kids from the Underground comes to her, she'll sing/play guitar for them even if she doesn't have a gig planned for that day.

General Opinion over said character: She's so cool!! I really love her whole aesthetic and her little singing idle animation just <33

Blade:

Sexuality Headcanon: Demisexual

Gender Headcanon: Like Diluc he's either cis or trans in my head :3

A ship I have with said character: Me~ - Kafka is also an option but given what I know of lore it also isn't lol

A BROTP I have with said character: the other Stellaron Hunters! So Kafka, Silver Wolf, etc.

A NOTP I have with said character: I don't think I have one again. I'm not usually picky when it comes to ships lol

A random headcanon: He loves watching cute animal videos (specifically like baby animals) but he won't ever say it out loud. Like he'll watch any that I send them and never complains that I send them so :3

General Opinion over said character: Loml literally. He's the exact character I fall for no matter what and his voice is already <33 so 10/10

[chowadoe]

my 2 sonadow twins, 🌘 Dusk and 🌖 Breaker 🌔 Breaker got all the powerful chaos/fighting abilities 🌘 Dusk got all the weird shit

at first i wanted to do a boy/girl twin duo but i thought itd be more fun to have both twins be boys. frat house. i personally love sonadow as girldads but if they had to be the fathers of TWO sons i cant imagine them being good with that. at all. LMAO

i also think they'd give their sons the stupidest names ever

Shadow would give it some thought and try to be poetic abt it (imo it still sounds stupid) (yes he named Dusk) and Sonic's like "man lol wouldn't it be funny if--"

technically Violet's "siblings"

Lore tldr: Violet (does not know her dads/what specific universe she comes from) ➡️ found/adopted/mentored by Rouge ➡️ twins come from that Rouge's universe