#About the Commander

[lady-quen]

Always wanted to do a what-if fully corrupted Mael, and what better opportunity to do so than Isgarren's shady little experiments? Introducing codename "Harbinger", also known as Sun Eater, Fenrir, Shadowlord, Bleak Raven.

As a failsafe in case of the Commander ever losing himself to the demon magic he wields, the Wizards ran a simulation of the worst possible future - orchestrating the deaths of all his loved ones, to the point he finally lost himself to madness. All in all, standard fractal business - except, whoops, the real Mael was never supposed to learn of Sun Eater's existence! And Sun Eater was never supposed to learn it wasn't in the real Tyria! Oh no... what's this about scientific hubris...? A little fucking around and finding out, perhaps?

And oh no! Is the former Pact Commander (the real deal) now plotting to assassinate Isgarren as well as trick the Wayfinder, Maolmuire, into slaying him in turn to prevent the possibility of a very dark future? Maybe.

His mental state hasn't been the best in quite some time and this is the straw that broke the camel's back. Except it was several bricks thrown at his head.

[lady-quen]

Nobody knows don't mind him putting his head back on his neck, his eyes are up there

im aware this is an insane thing to say but i fucking. love characters that are just cockroaches. and i dont mean like. gross i mean they just do not fucking die. they can survive anything. they will outlive EVERYONE because they just will not die no matter what be it because they have a reason or because they literally cannot stop surviving the odds i love it i love it

[transcarcinization]

i think he would kill it on space tiktok

[milkywayes]

you were born to do this

happy N7 Day!

[find prints here!]

[duckydrawsart]

*softens ur commander* <3 :)

[lady-quen]

Mael's leaves are based on the tillandsia air plant, which is a type of epiphyte (occasionally aerophyte) which grows in moderate to hot climates - from what I read, the metallic silver sheen isn't a product of a pigment, but a form of structural mechanism to bend and reflect light. That can be attributed to a waxy outer layer and specialized trichomes, miniscule hair-like appendages that are more efficient at water intake and subsequently keeping the water, which makes Mael further resistant to heat and drought. His skin and bark also possess a similar silvery shine under most light, which is a pretty fun explanation to why ingame, he appears green-ish in darkness, but gray under light!

I'd also imagine he'd turn greener when soaked, like the real plant, and then silvery white when exposed to the sun for too long and dried out.

And then there's the funny thing.. Mael doesn't even do fire magic or really anything fire-themed, he does ice magic as part of necromancy, and is more magically resistant to cold than he is physically resistant to heat.

i need more sylvari headcanons that are based directly on plants/fungi tbh

succulent sylvari being able to go days without drinking anything

sylvari that are based on specific trees which can’t stand the cold having problems with injured bark/limbs in shiverpeak mountains due to winter damage

sick sylvari getting all sorts of leaf diseases / losing their leaves

some poor sylvari having (perhaps chronic) problems with excessive sap dripping

just tree diseases in general

specific mushroom and tree sylvari being friends because of symbiosis (even if just on a sort of metaphorical level)

sylvari that lose all sorts of pollen (I know they don’t reproduce but.. just imagine) upsetting all the allergic people around

imagine a corpse flower sylvari…. poor thing doesn’t have any friends. apart from perhaps noseless sylvari.

??? gimme more pls

[androdragynous]

I'm a disability advocate (I think you should be disabled)

[inkskinned]

it is genuinely and truly terrifying to watch trump and his apostles create a crisis and then "resolve" the crisis.

it is terrifying to watch right-wing media first say they love the tariffs, that "america is finally first again," that we don't need to be in a global economy. but then trump changes his mind. the media, in the next day or even hour - suddenly admits that the market was crashing, that we were in serious economic danger. but no worries because trump has saved us all! he's brought us back from the brink and stocks skyrocketed, something biden never did! trump's a hero! he loves us! he saved america!

i hate that the word "fascist" doesn't even seem to alarm them anymore. i hate that they treat it as a joke. i hate that others lift their noses and say triggered, libs? while lives fall apart. this is a man who has a religion behind him. this is a god-king. this is a man who has warped the soul of america, and they treat him as if he's just a goofy genius with a heart of gold.

within one hour of the tarriffs being announced, i already saw a commenter on instagram saying this is how we know he's playing chess, not checkers. but all the libs already sold their stocks, and i'm sat here laughing. i had to close my eyes.

[they-hermes]

the only way id accept jazz frequently going undercover as a decepticon in fanon is if how he does it is just by being nice and funny. like i bet any decepticon would spill massive intel if they met this guy who made funny jokes and offered to clean their guns sometimes. sure they'd like to punch the rookie around but they mellow out pretty quickly and soon enough they're telling the new guy every detail they know about high command over a few drinks and letting him through restricted areas

[acceptrans]

Hope nobody did this with Plo Koon and Commander Wolffe before!

Tumblr messing up the picture's quality again

The template by @mellon-soup under the cut!

[aerialworms-art]

Lifespans.

(ID under cut)

[Image ID: A three-way venn diagram floating against a starfield. The circles are coloured; one yellow, one light blue, one a darker shade of blue. The yellow is the smallest, the two blue ones over double its size, with the darker blue the biggest. The yellow is half covered by the two blue circles, while it takes up a small amount of the two blues. The centre overlap between all three is labelled "the precious few years we three were together".

There is very little overlap between the yellow and the darker blue without the lighter blue.

The work is signed 'aerialworms'./End ID]

[lady-quen]

"Hush, Commander of the Pact. The Dawn will not come this time. But, ah, who needs the light..? Fear not your Night."

A piece I've been wanting to do ever since @commanderteag made his for Maolmuire - right here. Juxtaposing Maelmordha's younger, Valiant self and his current lich self.

As the heir to Riannoc's failed Wyld Hunt, Mael spent his early days researching forbidden necromancy as well as anything else that could possibly help him take on Mazdak the Accursed. Little did he know the path of Pact Commander would lead him to turn to his darkest side and become a reflection of his people's very first nightmare - a necessary evil, to claw a shadow of his life back from the ashes and take on a rampant god.

His death traumatically severed him from the Dream, rendering him completely Soundless - without Mother's songs and guidance, he was left to lead the Pact through both their and his own darkest times. Even Caladbolg itself burned his hands, eventually leading him to give up the mantle of Knight of Thorn.

"Take a good look, boy, because this is what we'll be."

"...How so? What for? What caused us to fall this far?"

"The love we yet had for this world."

"That's impossible. Monsters don't know what love is. You don't - you are not me!"

"I'm sorry. You've yet to learn there isn't a clear divide between the righteous and the monstrous."

"....Was it worth it?"

"...Yes."

[zeropro]

[rogerdeakinsdp]

Academy Award Winners for Best Cinematography: 2004 — Russell Boyd, ACS, ASC Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) Directed by Peter Weir Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1

“Master and Commander — gee, that was a hard film to make. There is no easy film, of course, but Master was very demanding physically — because of the water, even though a lot of it was shot in the tank in Mexico that had been built for Titanic. Peter Weir once said to me — and I’ll never forget it — he said, ‘Come on and do a film of mine, and I’ll take you on an adventure.’ And he does!” — Russell Boyd for The American Society of Cinematographers, February 2018

[lizards-wizards-and-magpies]

the fandom making fox an overworked and unpaid government worker has given more empathy to the character than anyone could imagine