#I like tormentors

[desolyx-xvii]

Having a lot of self-doubts with art right now, spending a lot of time just practicing and not really finishing anything, but this one got completed. A tormentor, for practice. It's really fun to study anatomy from creatures whose anatomy is absolutely fucked up.

Plus a little speedpaint, because why not.

[karta-vacante]

Torment(ed) Ahamkara

[saudrag]

sooo… nobody’s gonna talk about how every time hughie kills someone & gets their blood all over himself the next thing happening is butcher killing someone & getting coated in blood too? literally every. single. time.

murder husbands i guess?

also i was SO fucking cheering for hughie to kill that man. i need this boy morally RUINED

[ahungeringknife]

I still am not over Calus in LF. The empty chalice he holds onto the entire time. He has everything he wanted. He is Emperor again. He has power. He has authority. His every command is obeyed. His ever whim is tended to. Any game or plaything he wants is at his disposal.

But it is a hollow victory for Calus. His cup does not runneth over. It is barren. For all the gold and opulence he has nothing. He is nothing. He has won but he has no one to share it with. There is no grand parties. No banquets in his name.

His Shadow Legion stand or prostrate in silence. They are clones who know only warfare. They do not know culture or substance or how to celebrate. They are husks. The Tormentors sent by the Witness are likewise silent monoliths. They do not speak in a way Calus can understand. They only stand by his throne, tethering him to the Witness as his 'guards'.

Calus 'won' in his own eyes but there are no banquets, there is no wine. His chalice is empty and will be forever until the same rage that took him to destroy himself in the first place takes him again. He crushes the chalice but it doesn't matter. He will always have that emptiness inside of him.

And then we kill him because we are supported by our allies, and he has nothing, and no one.

[red-room-studi0]

I'll give u guys uhhhh $5 if u can guess who he was inspired from hehe (lies)

[k9punkout]

in reference to this poll that urak won

[rocketrouquine]

So since I can’t seem think of anything else, here’s another idea for you :

I think that when Ed headbutts Stede, his eyes are suggesting that he’s waking up violently like when you have a nightmare in a movie and you’re sitting up from the trauma.

what if all the sequences with him and Hornigold (Hornigold’s ghost? Just this guy in white?) are a sort of fever dream/coma following an injury or him getting knocked out or drowning?

It’s got this blue haze and Hornigold is always behind him like a mentor figure or a guide.

Ed jumping with the rock and sinking is a metaphor of him choosing to live (« don’t let go ») and killing his past self(« life begins again »).

And maybe it’s Stede’s words « I love everything about you » etc that get him out of it. But that does not mean that he forgave him, just that he’s going to live.

[samfordpines]

"You didn't stop when I begged you" theres tears in his eyes i think

[little-tangerines]

kids are generally weird and religious kids are just plain scary honestly

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[vinnigami]

doodle your favorite demon :0

I have too many ‘favorite demons’ to choose (Amanozako, Norn, Fionn mac Cumhaill, Kushinada-Hime, Bai Suzhen, and way too many more..) but i’ve been on an smt angels kick as of late. So I just drew Virtue

[zealsoughtsequesterustanxiedemon]

Rewatching Durarara with a friend of mine and we hit the Shizuo episode and I remembered wow he's my favorite character in this.

A character who id defined by violence: the strongest man in town, super-human even, uncontrollable, and easily irritable. But I love the episode we get for him because it really re-frames how his life led up to this.

He's had issues with anger and control since he was a kid. He's been in a cycle of getting angry, harming himself through wanton destruction, getting hospitalized, and healing his broken bones on-and-on until his body just actually got strong enough to stop getting hurt. A cycle he doesn't much like, causing him pain, property destruction, and sometimes hurting those he cares about. He loses jobs because of it and its obviously not very good socially. P neurodivergent imo.

But you know what he's also known for. That damn bartender outfit. The ones his brother gave him to encourage him keeping one of his many jobs. Of course, world isn't nice, he loses that job same way as the others. Now he's working as a bodyguard for a debt collector, one where his strength and infamy can decently benefit him. But he still wears the bartender outfit because of how many of them his brother got for him. So it's really cute how although he's still known for his anger, he's identified by something that came out of love, and from one of his favorite people.

He REALLY loves his brother. One of the people who's not afraid of him AND can actually calm him down. The other core one is Celty. He definitely has other friends, but those two are, like, THE people he can just really relax around. Show that his true nature isn't violence or wrath. He'd prefer being able to just chill, his brain just won't let him.

So besides his struggles, what I really like about Shizuo is that he can just exist. Despite his problems, he has a support system, he has a stable job now, he has friends, he has people who can stop him, and he can just live even if a lot of that life has to be angry. Heck, the police don't even apprehend him because his fits happen so much. Such a destructive person is okay to just be there. Problems will arise, and that's okay.

[eroguron0nsense]

Little thing that occurred to me about Law and Haki

I've always attributed the "canon" reason for Law continually getting spanked or struggling in spite of his virtually unparalleled power to be that he's just comparatively worse at haki than a lot of his opponents. Generally speaking, you can work your way around a LOT of devil fruit powers or brute force through them if you've got enough spatial intelligence and haki to work your way around them (see Oden, Vergo, Shanks, presumably Roger). Law's haki is established in Punk Hazard/Dressrossa to be weaker than Vergo's and Doffy's, in spite of certain external factors that contributed to him losing fights he could have either won or done substantially better in, and that kind of leads a lot of people to thinking that Law's powers are too good and they just needed to nerf him so that the fights could actually be more difficult and give Luffy an actual chance to shine/make the stakes higher etc That much is absolutely true, and Law having more developed haki combined with the way he's learned to use the Ope Ope no Mi would probably make him damn near invincible. I do, however, think that there's a bit more to this–and a more plausible justification– than just Law being as vulnerable or outmatched as the series needs him to be at any point in time, which is that he's had little to no fucking opportunity to polish it.

So quick recap: Law probably had some understanding of how haki worked from his time training with the Donquixote family, who taught him everything he knows about martial arts/swordplay/combat that didn't involve devil fruits. After Minion Island and Cora's death, he makes his way to Swallow Island, finds Bepo being bullied by Penguin and Shachi, and eventually manages to recruit all three to start the Heart Pirates. The thing is, as Cora told Law before he died, eating the Ope Ope no Mi turns both Doffy and the Marines against Law and virtually leaves him all alone with three children who are weaker fighters than him, and unless Oda gives him a second backstory, we can presume Law had no other mentors the entire time. The entire foundation for Law learning Haki in a world where everyone who knew about him would have been hunting him down a la Nico Robin would just have been him working off of what he learned from the Donquixote family. We don't know how the rest of the worst generation picked it up except for Luffy, who despite having only really understood what it was recently, spent two years being mentored and trained intensively by one of the greatest haki users alive; Law presumably had to pick it up on his own in life or death circumstances and had to focus more on escape or evasion as a 13 year old with limited powers and going through the whole childhood Luffy process of actually learning how to utilize his devil fruit in combat, especially since the Ope Ope no Mi canonically involves a hell of a lot of skill, intricacy, and imagination to be able to use to its fullest potential. The difference in Law's ability and more experienced or better haki users is basically the difference between people who've been training in highly specific martial arts for a long time and someone who was good at karate until they had to stop taking classes in middle school, and basically had to try and build up any skills they had developed by that point entirely on their own with no external guidance. You can learn to hold your own in a fight but the actual skills involved in picking up haki either come under super specific circumstances or involve learning highly specialized skills under mentorship. The people who are really, really good at it either have years and years of experience honing it (every Yonko, Katakuri), had it knocked into them by someone who was better at it (see Luffy and Zoro's training arcs, Hyogoro helping Luffy build on what he'd learned from Rayleigh to finally pick up Ryuo), or levelled it up under very specific life or death circumstances after already having a background in it (see the Katakuri fight, or Luffy unlocking his Ryuo under duress). Law and his crew of babies were presumably running for their lives constantly or trying to live under the radar until they'd gotten a bit stronger so that Doffy didn't pick up on the fact that Law was out there and vulnerable; their circumstances just weren't quite the right ones to develop their haki as quickly or as strongly.

[zombiified]

worlds most expensive blind box

[sparklerzii]

unpopular opinion but i REALLY don't think freddy bully is or should be oswalds dad....

[artistcheez]

Stupid headcannon but I think Eddie Gluskin looks like Till Lindemann. Can’t unsee it. Big German man. My boy likes spätzel with butter and chives. I just know it.

[transmasccofee]

imagine being so absurdly cruel to your little brother that u even moving back to the country he lives in terrifies him enough to warrant a shaded closeup shot