#Gryf

[nemomo]

bright colours + mspaint with a mouse tomfoolery + old mostly Jadina sketches + a sketch revived coloured by Laura C 💖🙏

part 1 here

[chouettedesmarais]

I finally customized my cap! For the style I was inspired by Arcane and some others x))

[igottakeeponmoving]

Rewriting Romance in Les Légendaires

Disclaimer: This is all in good fun, and is merely a way for me to get this all out of my head before Brain stops Braining.

I once said that Patrick Sobral can't write a romantic subplot to save his life, and that I really wished he'd stop trying to shoehorn them where they're not needed. A bit of pondering has led me to the conclusion that there is, in fact, potential for good romances among Sobral's six leads; the combinations he chose to put them in just kind of suck. Of course, these are romantic subplots featured in a story that is not first and foremost a romance, so of course you don't get a whole lot of reason for why these people are attracted to each other, but one can only suspend one's disbelief for so long when taking a look at the character dynamics. The canon pairings are as follows:

Danaël/Jadina: Classic Knight/Princess setup, he rescued her when she was kidnapped during an escort mission and they ran away together and founded the Legendaries. You don't watch these two fall in love, you are given the understanding that they already are in love, but despite their being adults who have known each other for a long time, Danaël and Jadina suffer from a case of what Tv Tropes refers to as Twice Shy. There is demonstrably nothing actually standing in the way of their being together, not even Jadina's royal title given that her parents banished her, and definitely not her erstwhile fiancé prince Halan, in whom Jadina makes it pretty clear that she has approximately zero interest. Not offensive, but relatively cliché and all in all pretty bland and predictable.

Razzia/Tenebris: Former co-Dragons to the villain, he dumped her when he realized they were actually the baddies and joined the Legendaries. This is a complete wish fulfillment fantasy; A not conventionally attractive dude has no indication of a love interest until it turns out that he has a beautiful, murderously devoted ex-girlfriend who even after all these years is still very much in love with him? Again, there is no buildup to them falling in love because they somehow already are, to the point where Tenebris's entire reason for deciding that she wants to be on the "good" side is that she is still in love with "Korbo" (Razzia's villain name), who on his end hasn't actually done anything to inspire this decision, would much rather she didn't join the team and tells her to fuck off every time she calls him Korbo. Their romance doesn't do it for me because she's in love with who he used to be, and isn't given nearly enough time to get to know this new version of him before they get back together, while he on his part associates her with lies, betrayal and the trauma of losing his family to her father's forces. Knowing this, how could they ever pick up where they left off?

Gryf/Shimy: Snarky beastman with a Past meets proud elf who can merge with the four elements. Is meant to be your run-of-the-mill bickering old married couple, is in fact an absolute dumpster fire that never should have happened. Gryf and Shimy don't appear to respect one another at all, and consequently treat each other like absolute crap, to the point where neither of them comes out of it looking better than the other. Gryf appears to be utterly allergic to communicating with Shimy to the point where he keeps her in the dark about a lot of things and generally treats her like she's unworthy of his trust, or like she's fragile, and winds up cheating on her with another girl who he also treats like crap despite the fact that said girl is, ironically, way more fragile than he believes Shimy to be (#ShunDayDeservedBetter). Shimy on her part assumes the worst of Gryf on principle and reacts to any perceived or legitimate slight by physically abusing him, and we the audience are meant to find this funny because Shimy is a woman and Gryf is a man. This isn't made any better by the fact that there is a significant power imbalance between the two: what can Gryf's claws do when Shimy can literally bend the elements to her will, and why would anyone want to be someone who puts the fear of God in them? Gryf is frequently referred to as "the bravest of the Legendaries" and yet somehow, dealing with Shimy is the one area where this does not apply. There just came a point where I really wished these two would break up for good and try their hand at being friends again.

Now. Before anyone makes any assumptions, I should mention that I am an aroace lesbian who does not actually ship any ships from Les Légendaires. Teenage me was an avid fan and used to think this was quality writing, and having grown up and drawn my own conclusions on Sobral since then, I think it highly unlikely that he would have made any of his main pairings anything other than heterosexual, given that Sobral has already been known to use les yay as a joke and the only same-sex pairing seen in his works is a side couple, two women at that, who get lecherously spied on by Gryf because Sobral apparently couldn't just Not Make It Weird.

Knowing this, here are the combinations that I propose: Gryf/Jadina, Razzia/Shimy and Danaël/Tenebris.

Gryf/Jadina: Power couple as fuck. Gryf and Jadina respect and support each other so goddamn much that no disagreement could ever make their bond any less strong, they are the Best Friends to ever Best Friend (no shade to Gryf's canon best friend, Danaël). Their upbringings are diametrically opposed, she a princess and he a gladiator, and they should by all rights have nothing in common, but they share a common experience of being denied their very freedom because of (granted, very, very different) circumstances beyond their control. Jadina will rightfully call Gryf out on his nonsense but never in a way that is meant to make him feel like an idiot, and she trusts him so much that he was initially the only other Legendary she apparently confided in about her banishment; Gryf not only doesn't treat Jadina like she's made of glass (which is how he treats Shimy) but listens to her, and has proven again and again that he will follow her to hell and back - remember his heartbroken rage when he thought Jadina had been killed and replaced by an impostor? These two also have a not-insignificant recurring Beauty and the Beast motif which I love, and which Gryf himself lampshades when he rescues Jadina from her execution in book 14. As a bonus, I personally headcanon Gryf as bi, and in my head his type is smart, kind-hearted and ludicrously powerful mages with dark hair, brown skin and light-colored eyes (Jadina and Elysio have more than a few similarities; I see you, Gryf). Also, they're both royals; potential for a political alliance meant to get the Jaguarians out of the shadows? Maybe that's too convoluted.

Razzia/Shimy: Fun fact, these two were originally going to be a canon pairing before Sobral realized that Gryf/Shimy was more popular with the fans (arguably a horrible reason to make a ship sail). Shimy has a more easy rapport with Razzia and shows him more genuine care than to any of the others, though she also enjoys teasing him in earlier books and generally seems to find him quite endearing. Razzia conversely thinks the world of Shimy and always lends her an ear if she needs to talk while also respecting her boundaries, and goodness knows what a calming influence he has on her. It bears noting that the pair of them are the muscle component of the Legendaries, he in the literal sense while she can magically enhance herself with rocks, I can totally picture them working out together. Also, the fact that the two of them have more personal beef with Darkhell than any of their comrades means that they get each other in a way that the others might not - yes, Jadina was a frequent target of Darkhell's, but the Eagle Staff is what he actually wanted; Shimy was full-on tortured, and that's not even getting into what went down with Anathos. All of that is still pretty fresh and even once Anathos is gone, Shimy understandably still has a lot of residual anger. This is probably partly the reason why she lashes out at Gryf so often and so violently, but he isn't really in any position to truly be there for her given that he's currently going through his own shit. Razzia, on the other hand? He's no stranger to how Shimy feels, but his emotional wounds are not as fresh, in fact they've pretty much scarred at this point.

Danaël/Tenebris: Such a missed opportunity. Give me more Enemies to Lovers that is actually Enemies to Lovers and where the girl is the "evil" one. I'm thinking that one scene from Princess Mononoke, you know the one: "I'll cut your throat! That'll shut you up/You're beautiful". Danaël and Tenebris are shown to respect each other but are also fundamentally opposed in their philosophies. They challenge and question one another in a relatively professional and level-headed manner, and I could see a mutual intrigue blooming into admiration as each attempts to work the other out. Danaël's unrelenting idealism would give Tenebris the push she needs to actually question her view of the world, which would give her a real, believable redemption arc that wouldn't come out of nowhere - she was a one-off henchwoman who got dealt with pretty quickly, honestly what was there to redeem - or indeed be boiled down to Doing It For Love. Danaël on the other hand could come to realize the more he interacts with Tenebris that it's not all black and white, that no one is born evil and that Tenebris was just as much shaped by her environment as he was by his own. Speaking of which, they actually have more in common than they think since they both grew up motherless, have a shared military past that each ended up defecting from (she ranked higher than he did though) and they also have been known to go to extremes for the sake of the Greater Good - like for instance Danaël deciding to have Shimy killed to keep Anathos from coming back, or Tenebris justifying the sacking of Barabath as a necessary sacrifice for the unifying of Alysia in one of Razzia's flashbacks. As a nice final touch, together they make up the blade component of the team. Sparring date, anyone?

One last disclaimer: My reshuffling of the pairings does not, in my mind, erase the original pairings, because it's common knowledge that you can love more than one person in your lifetime. It also always bugged me that Sobral's heroes were allowed to move on to different partners and even express attraction to other women while his heroines stayed stuck on the same person book after book for no apparent reason. I can see Danaël and Jadina having a small adrenaline-fueled attraction when they meet that later becomes a real friendship as they get to know each other better, Gryf and Shimy letting the sexual tension fizzle out once they realize their personalities just don't mesh well (preferably without dragging poor Shun-Day into it, honestly Gryf could not have picked a worse person to needlessly jerk around), and Razzia and Tenebris getting closure and moving on from their past.

[here-for-a-good-time-hopefully]

James, walking into the Gryffindor common room: Morning my love

Regulus: Hello James

James: I gotta say after last night I feel a little weak in the knees

Sirius, spinning around in a armchair:

James:

Regulus:

Sirius: Hey Potter, here’s an idea, you walk into a room… take a quick scan

[envahisseurzim]

[elhie6]

Les Légendaires x Les 7 péchés capitaux: Luxure (Gryf)

Nous y voilà avec le second péché capital: "Luxure"... qui est décelé cette fois-ci en la personne de Gryf !!

"Représentant le Courage parmi les Légendaires, son côté pervers auprès des femmes lui joue des tours. Apprenant que sa blessure au torse et au cœur causée par Anathos le condamne à une année d'espérance de vie, Gryf a joué double jeu en manipulant les sentiments de Shimy et Shun-Day... ce qui ne lui a pas du tout rendu service."

Son animal totem de son péché est le chat.

Les Legendaires x The 7 deadly sins: Lust (Gryf)

Here we are with the second deadly sin: "Lust"... which is detected this time in the person of Gryf!!

"Representing Courage among les Legendaires, his perverse side with women plays tricks on him. Learning that his injury to the torso and heart caused by Anathos condemns him to a year of life expectancy, Gryf played a double game by manipulating Shimy and Shun-Day's feelings... which did him no favors at all."

His totem animal of his sin is the cat.

I hope you like it !~❤

[jaguarys]

Your opinion on gryf

specifically his relationship with Kel-Cha and his team

OHHH thank you for asking. I apologize for this TRULY taking forever, I have lots to say lol

Gryf is My Guy Of All Time. He's quite possibly one of my favorite fictional characters ever. Probably kickstarted my obsession with hurt/comfort at a young age because he deserves it more than anyone.

I just think... a character who goes through so fucking much and still is good, still cares about others, still wants to make the world better. I said in one of my fics that he's probably the best of them, and while that was through Jadina's POV I still stand by it. He's rough around the edges, but I think he's still just... good.

His relationship with Kel-Cha is so fascinating. Obviously it was the focus of one of my fics, but I imagine it would just be... so difficult. Kel-Cha spent all this time waiting for a specific person who is not Gryf. Gryf spent all this time waiting to fill a hole that he can't. They both want to be what the other wants and needs, but they can't quite manage it. I think over time they'd be able to find something new and less yearning for what they can't have.

I think the dynamics between him and his team are super different for each member of course. He and Danaël are obviously best friends, but I think that Gryf also idolizes him a lot. He looks up to him in a way that isn't entirely accurate to some of Danaël's nastier habits.

He and Jadina are just... special to me. I think they're truly close in a way some of the others aren't. They love each other so dearly. It's a friendship born of acknowledgement that they could not be more different in every way that counts.

I've discussed this before but I think his and Shimy's relationship is a bit underdeveloped in canon. I Could like it but mostly it's just not really for me. I think their relationship in canon kinda does a disservice to the both of them.

I honestly haven't thought too much about him and Ténébris OR him and Razzia which is a shame! Their dynamic is fascinating! I think he's more forgiving than some of the other members of the group, in part just because of a lack of bad blood and also just because he doesn't really see the point in grudges.

I think about him all the time, thank you again for asking :)))

[corelle-vairel]

Little owl guy from my todays dream

[fuzzymaro]

Steampunk solo

A gryphon musician performing in an old radio studio, caught in the moment as he plays his heart out. I wanted to capture that vintage atmosphere with warm, moody lighting and classic studio equipment in the background. The mix of steampunk elements and the aged setting gives it a timeless feel, like a broadcast from another era. Had a great time working on the textures, especially the metal details on the guitar and the soft glow of the studio lights. Char belongs to Lauva Tai  Commissions are open! 

[nookisms]

i like your new pfp but also i dont look closely at them while scrolling through my dash and i keep thinking its rain world looks to the moon

Yay Moon I love Moon I need to beat Rain World but I'm not good at video games

[nemomo]

A compilation of stuff I did during the Unis toujours zine time period, so between a year and a half and a year ago. some of those were made for the zine social media pages and others were purely made for good fun and ended in the bonus booklet. that last one was done with a mouse on mspaint (my beloved)

part 2 here

[chouettedesmarais]

FINALLY FINISHED! But otherwise here is a little Gif that I had fun making, there will probably be more in the future (if my brain decides to keep motivation as a friend)

[lovelybrandt]

Gryf Stories

Seachange: A Dolphin/Cetacean Transformation Story

Laura was driving to the beach as fast as she could. She had just gotten off work and was trying to make it to the ocean before Sunset. She didn't want to have to hold this in any longer then she had to, and was hoping to be ready when the time came. The 30 something woman had a unique gift, one she was glad she possessed, but at times, it could be troublesome to control and utilize. The stress of her work day was getting to her, and she needed the opportunity to just unwind and be free.

But today, luck was with her, and she arrived at the beach just before sunset. The beach was a secluded one, one where not many people visited, as too many onlookers would make this whole process very awkward to explain. On nights she tried this on more crowded beaches, she found that she had to just give up the whole thing rather then be seen by too many people. But today, at this beach, she was the only soul on it. She pulled her car into her parking spot right by the beach, and got everything she needed out of her car before locking the doors.

She walked a short distance to a small shed she rented, nothing fancy, just something to keep her stuff in while she was off doing what it is she did for the night. She came up to the combination lock and quickly entered the combination. Having a lock that needed a key would have been awkward, as she would have little place to keep a key when off on her excursion for the night. Fortunately for her, she had easily memorized the combination.

Laura turned on a battery powered lamp inside the shed, and pulled out a chair from under a counter against the wall to sit on. Laura put down a duffel bag she brought with her, unzipping it for later use.

She then began to undress, taking off her work shoes, and placing them aside. She then undid the buttons on her short sleeved blue blouse, and slid the whole thing off her shoulders, revealing a black lacy bra underneath. Next she unzipped her black miniskirt, and slid that down her legs, kicking it off her feet. She then grabbed her left stocking at the base, and slid it off her leg, kicking it aside with her skirt, and then doing the same with the other stocking. Now only in a black bra and panties, Laura reached behind her back, and undid her bra clasp. She then reached back and pulled off her whole bra, placing it with the rest of her clothing. Lastly, she reached down to her waste, and pulled down her underpants down her legs, putting them alongside the other clothes. Now totally in the nude, Laura grabbed all of her clothing and folded them up neat inside the duffel bag, zipped it up and then tucked the duffel bag neat in a corner of the shed.

Laura opened the door ever so slightly to check that the beach was indeed clear of any onlookers. As far as she could tell, it was. Once or twice she was caught at this stage, but fortunately for her, all she was assumed to be doing was skinny dipping at this point, so her little secret had stayed safe.

She shut the shed door behind her, and secured the lock on the door and locked it. Then she ran along the beach to the water, stepping in the shallow surf and wading in deeper and deeper until she was in up to her knees. As the water got deeper, she began to swim instead, swimming under water when it was deep enough to do so. She eventually arrived at a sandbar, high enough that she could stand with only her knees still under the water. The whole process was that much easier when she had a firm stance that was barely in the water rather then having to sway in the surf. She had timed her arrival and undressing well, as the sun had just set and the full moon was out shining brightly.

Laura waited a short moment, but not too long, as soon her friend arrived to greet her. A Male Bottle-nose Dolphin had arrived to greet Laura for the night. Now that her friend was here, and that the moon was out, Laura could begin the process.

Laura stood in the moonlight, up to her knees in the surf, her friend swimming around her at the time. She concentrated hard and just willed the change to begin. Once begun, it took no more effort on her part to finish. She shut her eyes tight, and let the whole thing begin.

Laura's face was the first thing to change, pulsing and throbbing, shifting subtlety into a new shape.

The change happened next in her hands, pulsing and throbbing, popping and cracking some more as her palms began to grow, and her fingers and thumbs began to shrink and shorten, her hands becoming webbed and deformed as the spaces in between her fingers filled out with skin and her fingers began to shrink down, some of her joints swelling as it began.

Her face began to contort and change some more, her forehead expanding upwards, and her mouth and nose pushing ever so slightly forward from her cheek bones. Her skin also began to take on a slight shiny sheen, as it shifted slightly from flesh tone to gray.

Her chest was the next to change, her breasts simultaneously shrinking and receding into her chest, popping and cracking along the way getting flatter and flatter as they did, until her chest seemed as flat as a man's. Eventually her nipples even shrunk in to her chest, blending in with her increasingly smooth and graying skin.

Laura then hunched over, bending down over the water, the strain of the change taking a toll, as well as facilitating the ease of further changes. Flaps of skin grew between her arms and her sides, resembling webbing between her arms and body. Her arms had shortened and gotten stockier, as her hands still continued to swell and her fingers recede.

Her buttocks began to shift next, shrinking down against her body as a ridge along her spinal column began to rise and form a small bump that pushed itself outwards. Her whole torso then began to compact itself and grow shorter, her arms moving closer towards her legs.

Her ears then began to recede into her head, shrinking and flattening against her pulsating head, shrinking away into small little holes that would now serve as her ears. Laura's short black hair began to shrink was well, getting shorter as it too began to recede into her head.

A small gray triangular nub pushed its way out of her back, her skin now even more smooth, rubbery and gray. The tiny nub swelled and grew until it resembled a short fin coming out of her back.

Her face continued to change, as more of Laura's hair shrunk right back into her scalp, resembling a person going bald. Her nose flattened against her face, loosing all definition as it shrunk down to a tiny lump on her face with only her nostrils visible. Her lump of a nose began to stretch and shift as it began to journey up her face, towards her ever welling forehead, shifting further upwards until her nostrils rose up higher then her eyes, breathing heavily through the whole process. The ridge between her nostrils began to recede, leading her two nostrils to become a singular opening. As her nose shifted upwards, her mouth began to push forwards, as her lips began to disappear and her teeth all elongated and sharpened into long sharp points.

Her hands had swollen at this point into massive lumps as her thumbs had shrunk into tiny triangular nubs, and her fingers had all become short and swollen. Her lower three fingers shrunk down and receded into her palm, her palm swelling up along her index finger, her whole palm swelling out and flattening to resemble a flipper that continued to shrink inwards towards her body, becoming small flippers against the side of his body.

The last of Laura's hair had shrunk back into her head, and her neck had swollen and shrunk back to merge with her torso. Her face finally pushed out, her mouth growing elongated and bottle-like, Laura beginning to squeak and chirp as the process proceeded. Her teeth spread out and grew longer to space themselves along her new, more narrow mouth. It was then followed by her whole head as it shifted out to become longer, more vertical then horizontal. Her eyes shifted back and changed shape and position, moving back against the sides of her head instead of out front, and her neck shifted more to join the rest of her body.

The nub that had grown out from the base of her spine had elongated into a short tail, growing longer and longer as it swelled out, growing two fins from it's tip as it did, swelling into a proper fluke and wagging up and down as it did.

Laura's leg's where the last change, but quickly began to shrink. Her toes had already shrunk and been absorbed by her feet, and now her feet began to shrink into her legs.

Her legs began to shrink up into her body next, and as her legs shortened, her body slowly lowered itself into the water. The reducing mass from her legs seemed to go into her tail, because as her legs began to shrink, her tail continued to grow. Her legs shrunk smaller and smaller, receding into her body, until they became flat against her side and disappeared altogether.

The process finally over, Laura at last opened her new dolphin eyes, floating in the waves now in the form of a Bottle-Nose Dolphin. Seeing her friend, she swam up to meet him, and as he swam, she popped her head above the water for a moment, and then slipped beneath the water again. Laura and her friend swam off again to enjoy a night of swimming, breaching, catching fish, playing and romping with all her dolphin friends the entire night. Who knows, if she was having a good time, it could be weeks before she came to shore and resumed her human life. With one last peek at the shore beyond, dolphin Laura swam out to sea, her mind unable to grasp all the complexities of land, and now only desiring fun and freedom in the deep blue sea...

[le-panda-chocovore]

J'ai un sérieux problème

J'ai commencé à relire les BD Les Légendaires depuis le début et maintenant je commence à shipper Gryf et Elysio

Comment j'en suis arrivée là ?

[zrzucbrzuch]

Jaki gryf do domowej siłowni ? Zobacz co kupić !

[elhie6]

Happy new year (Gryf and Kel-Cha)

Bonne année 2024 à vous tous, espérons que cette année sera florissante pour chacun de nous tous et qu'on aille jusqu'au bout de nos créativités artistiques !!! ����🍾🥂🎊💖

Premier fanart de l'année avec les jumeaux Gryf et Kel-Cha !

Happy New Year 2024 to all of you, let's hope that this year will be flourishing for each of us and that we'll reach the end of our artistic creativity !!! 🎉🍾🥂🎊💖

First fanart of the year with twins Gryf and Kel-Cha !!!

I hope you like it !!~❤