#Hey Scar

[astoldbychae]

*Jazmine Sullivan “On It” plays in the background* 😌

[sarcasticmothdraws]

Fem!Wolfwood

[doctorsiren]

If you’re still taking drawing requests…a few of your favorite hermits possessed by Bill…Billsuma???? Pls Billsuma

Axolsuma is Bill Repellant

I had a lot of fun with the design so I only did Xisuma since you asked for him specifically :>

[eldritch-ace]

Coming out as a Hey, Melissa! defender, she’s just girlie pop and I think catboy Paul and dogboy Ted are great additions to the lore ✌️🐈💖

[sad-leon]

(good future) Finding Home Pride edition <3

Trans Leo pride is something I see a lot, but personally, FH Leo wouldn't celebrate his gender. He grew up around Gali, who went through a lot of gender struggles, especially in his younger years, and with the brothers being so accepting, it's just another part of his life

But his lack of romantic attraction? That's something that stands out to him. He sees the brothers with their own attractions and crushes and such and realizes he stands out. He's different. But that's okay because he's still him and he's still valid

anyways~ it's pride month, which means i get to be even more annoying about aro pride ^-^

that final shot without text:

[collophora]

I was watching calisthenic tutorials but got distracted and it ended up anatomy practice e_e

And I made it Tech 'cause idk, enjoy

[jkvjimin]

(166/∞) the perfect nose for butterflies to land on it ♡

[astronomodome]

It’s still what

[desertduality]

Been seeing that one art trend of grian in the purple eye sweater floating around and I was scrolling through Pinterest and I think I found scars version

like imagine

[fatedroses]

Some body type references and notes I wanted to make, especially before I redraw some of my old pieces (plus, a bit of him as an adventurer having a crisis of a realization), and also just personally how I HC the change between stormblood to now based on some in game refs I've been looking at.

[ask-the-pioneer]

What doth life?

"Long time ago, as a young pup searching for enlightenment..."

[lazycranberrydoodles]

cole !!!

more portrait practice ^^ these are so fun

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

Can I ask what the extent of Ford's injury is? As in, does it affect his memory and knowledge before the injury or just the way he speaks and understands things? Like, does he remember his name, and all his science studies? Does he have trouble retaining things after the injury as well?

Glad you asked! I had to scroll through a ridiculous amount of medical websites to research this properly, so thank you for giving me a reason to info dump!

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Disclaimer: I AM NOT A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL!! AT ALL!!! THIS IS RESEARCH I DID FOR A GOSH DANG GRAVITY FALLS AU – PLEASE DON’T TAKE IT TOO SERIOUSLY AND ACCEPT MY WORDS WITH A GRAIN OF SALT!!!! DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH!

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Ford suffers multiple severe cases of Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI), caused by several external factors, including, but not limited to: a botched cranial surgery, electrocution (from Project Mentem), and concussive head trauma from a car accident. Not fun!

Depending on the location and severity of a traumatic brain injury, the specific impacts the subsequent brain damage causes can vary. But, in general, TBIs can affect the way someone thinks, understands, moves, remembers, learns, communicates, and acts! Some of the symptoms can be:

https://msktc.org/tbi/factsheets/cognitive-problems-after-traumatic-brain-injury

The damage caused by Ford’s injury spans a little bit all over his brain, but touches most severely the areas of the brain responsible for language processing, such as Broca’s area or Wernicke's area. Hence, why his scar & bald patch is on that side of his head (the position of it is a little off but shhhh... it's nothing, ignore that-)

https://msktc.org/tbi/factsheets/cognitive-problems-after-traumatic-brain-injury

So, in the case of Ford's specific brand of TBI, I’m going to be focusing not only on how his cognitive skills and memory retention were affected by his injury, but also his struggle to articulate what he’s thinking.

In terms of memory and understanding, Ford didn’t just forget everything he’s known and learned prior to his injury! He’s still able to retain complex knowledge (such as facts or skills he’s gained from his previous studies), BUT he rather has more difficulty recalling or expressing this knowledge verbally. Cognitive skills and memory can sometimes be separate from language abilities. He doesn’t remember how or why he knows what he knows, he just does. He doesn’t necessarily understand all that he knows, but he still knows them.

These sort of symptoms that Ford displays are often seen in cases of expressive aphasia (aka. Broca’s aphasia), which is a type of aphasia (: difficulty understanding language) in which a person has lost the ability to produce language (spoken or written), but is still able to retain knowledge and general comprehension remains largely intact.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/aphasia/symptoms-causes/syc-20369518

His cognitive functions like problem-solving, reasoning, and ability to understand ideas and concepts remain somewhat intact, although not great. But sometimes he struggles in following conversations, reading, and remembering new information like names. His short term memory tends to fail him often.

However, therapies like speech-language therapy exist to help improve! The extent of recovery depends on the severity and location of the injury, again, but it can be done.

[lunarblazes]

The raid was going fine until Scar froze time. At least, that's probably what happened. If the raid wasn't going fine before then, it would be comforting, but Scar couldn't really remember it very well, to be honest. He remembered lots of panic, which was normal whenever he did a raid, but Grian had been doing fine, last he recalled. Very self-sufficient. Impressive!

It probably had to do with the fact Scar refused to wear full armor. It wasn't meant for tree elves--the cold metal was uncomfortable! Grian couldn't yell at him for that!

He could definitely yell at him for this, though. This was a bit of a problem, even Scar could see that.

The raid was going fine, honest! It was fine! Until, well, an evoker had cornered him, and he'd panicked, and Grian had dove towards them with his sword out, intending to help, and. Well.

His magic was defensive. It really wasn't his fault, if you thought about it. Vex magic was fickle!

Scar did do this, though, and they did have a problem. He floated above the ground, his skin tinged a ghostly blue, and felt the red pulse through his veins. He sighed.

"G, I messed up," he complained, turning to his friend, "I--"

He stopped. Grian wasn't standing next to the evoker. He wasn't even standing where the evoker had been.

He was floating. Right in front of Scar. Tiny, blue, and glowing, with his miniature white wings splayed out behind him, his features blurring into each other.

"Ohhhhh, oh no," Scar moaned, putting his head in his hands. "Oh… oh no."

He should have known this would happen. He should have known! Whenever a vex spawned, an allay would follow, and Grian had killed the evoker. If it had hit the evoker, the magic would have just dispersed with the totem, but no, Grian had to come and play the stupid hero…

It really was all Scar's fault. He didn't look up.

"Scar?" Grian said shrilly. "What did you do?"

"You're an allay?" Scar replied timidly.

"I'm a what," Grian hissed, poking at his tiny wings. "What did you do?"

"Vex magic? To phase through the evoker's fangs?"

"How does that have anything to do with me," Grian said. "Also, aren't you supposed to be an elf?"

"The ears are fake," Scar said solemnly. "And you just--happened to be in the blast radius! I don't know! Cub is much better at this than I am!"

Grian paused. "…you could have been wearing armor this whole time?"

Scar's ghostly face flushed. "No! I mean, technically, yes, but it's so unfashionable! It doesn't match my hair at all!"

Grian stared up at the sky, clearly exasperated. His eyes were pure white. Scar shifted uncomfortably, resolutely ignoring the fact that he wasn't really sure how to fix this. It would be fine. Someone had to know, right?

"Well, at least the raid's stopped!" Scar said cheerfully.

"The raid…?" Grian glanced down at the nonchalant crowd of pillagers milling about. "Oh. That's… nice, I guess."

"Yeah, they don't register us as players anymore," Scar said, waving a hand. "So they can't see us!"

"They--they don't see us as players? Are we mobs now, Scar?" Grian stared at him, wide-eyed.

"Um." Scar said. He tried to think of a response that sounded sure and like he hadn't accidentally just unmade his friend's code. "…no?"

Grian's expression did not relax. His eye twitched. That was impressive; Scar didn't think he'd ever seen an allay so frustrated. It was a novel experience.

"Can we at least get the stupid vindicator for your prank before they start trying to kill us again?"

"Why not?" Scar shrugged, floating over to the minecart. He pursed his lips, focusing for a moment, and…

Pop! His hands solidified. Quickly, Scar snatched the minecart's edge and sent it flying towards a nearby vindicator. The poor mob didn't know what hit him before he was facedown in the cart, unconscious.

"There! Easy, see?" Scar grinned, turning to Grian. "All part of my master pl--"

His sentence was cut short by Grian barreling towards him erratically, like a butterfly that had just emerged from its chrysalis, and phasing right through the edge of a house before he managed to stop himself about three centimeters from Scar's head.

"These wings suck," Grian panted, jerking wildly in the air, obviously trying to stay steadily aloft and failing miserably.

"You're supposed to float, G. Not fly." Scar demonstrated by doing a little flip in midair.

Grian stared at him as if he'd grown a second head. "What? That--no. That doesn't work!"

"I just did it." He did another flip in case Grian had missed the first one. "See?"

Scar might have just exploded his poor winged friend's brain. It was as if he'd entirely bluescreened from the blatant disregard for physics spirits like them showed.

"Chin up, G. Think about all the pranks we can play until we turn back, being able to float and phase through walls!"

Grian brightened slightly, begrudgingly, temporarily abandoning his worries about flight and movement in his strange new form. "Well. I won't say no to a little bit of pranking, once we get this fella back to your base."

"Of course, of course!" Scar said nonchalantly, solidifying once more to push the vindicator on course. "Adios, raiders! It has not been fun!"

Pranking would buy him some time to actually figure out how to turn them back. Probably. Or at least get Cub to do it. It would be fine!

[ladyblackbirdart]

Mommy Dina ✨

I wanted (needed) to see that post-baby bod with beautiful stretch marks and cute little rolls so I decided to sketch it up and 😳🥵🥵🥵

[moeblob]