#I love Anton a lot

[beigetiger]

Actually talking about the AU (wow, I know) by rambling about how Anton Shudder ended up on a team with the necroking and a godlike Valkyrie, because he really isn’t on their level of gleefully deranged. I am so biased towards him it’s not even funny.

Anton came back when the rib-bone wand exploded and sent out a burst of magic power, hitting various people differently. Anton, given as to how he’d been dead for so long, was extremely disoriented and saw a lot of chaos going on around him. He instinctively latched on to Valkyrie because he trusted her to not lead him into any stupid situations and she actually still seemed normal at this point.

Valkyrie was really happy to have Anton back and tried loosely explaining the situation to him as they went along fighting people (specifically Winter’s terrorist group). After the fight was over, Valkyrie argued with Ghastly over what should happen to Skulduggery (the compromise being that Skulduggery can be in Ireland for the time being but cannot go in or near Roarhaven) and the three of them decided that staying around Valkyrie’s house for the time being would probably be a good idea, and so they do that so Skulduggery has somewhere to hide and Anton can catch up with what happened since his death.

Now at this point, Valkyrie seemed normal to everyone, including to herself (think of when she turned into a Faceless One god). It took a few days for her to realize anything was wrong with her, and then she had to figure out how to trigger her transformation and what to do afterwards. She and Skulduggery (who’s now using parts of the shadow armour) also started acting more and more violent and unhinged over the next few days, but neither of them really noticed it.

Anton noticed it though, and he had conflicting feelings about it. Because on one hand, he disapproved of the meaningless violence. But on another hand, he loved them both a lot (he and Valkyrie eventually view each other as siblings) and he was also going through an interesting transformation at the time: losing his ability to summon his gist and instead basically being able to turn into a shadowy demon creature for short bursts at a time.

And then the Faceless Ones got out thanks to Malice. And while they were weaker than before, it meant that the mortals now knew about magic and things started going downhill fast. And Valkyrie jumped to the opportunity and went out to go pick fights with the Faceless Ones, while Skulduggery grabbed the other necromancers in order to do the same thing. And since Anton had nowhere else to go, he just…kept on following Valkyrie. Throughout everything. When other people started following her, when they settled down in Dublin, when he killed Mia, the list goes on.

And now it’s been years, and he can’t imagine anywhere he would ever be able to go away from Valkyrie. He’s unhappy, yes, but he doesn’t hate her. Really, he’s learned to shut out a lot of his emotions so that they don’t keep on bothering him. We’ll see how long it takes for him to finally lose it, I suppose.

[ratatatastic]

SASHA LUNDY CLUTCHING ONTO EACH OTHER FOR DEAR LIFE HELLO

THE INHERENT ROMANTICISM THAT IS IN BURYING YOUR FACE INTO EACH OTHER AND CRADLING ONE ANOTHER'S HEADS

CAN YOU HEAR MY WAILS?????? CAN YOU HEAR THEM AT HOW LUNDY IS SQUEEZING SASHAS WAIST??? HELLO?????

[cakeiilock]

if you're still doing requests, could you do anton?

here is anton!! my first time drawing him :D

[grif-hawaiian-rolls]

Is this canon? Technically no.

Is it even In character? Absolutely not!

Do I care? Not really!

Locus is my blorbo and i can put him in annoying situations, like having a small squad of annoying but just-good-enough-to-not-kill-them Feds, if i want to

[whereismyhat5678]

As for right now, my hands seem to not be working as well with me lately, so I may be experiencing a ✨burnout✨ (I’m so sorry- 😭)

But today I did push myself to make something, and it’s something I’ve been wanting to do for a WHILE so-

The background is plain but I am VERY happy with how all my little guys turned out-

And yes, this was that one Twitter thing:

[vonlipvig]

they should let symon go to a rage room to break shit up every couple of months. either that, or kill a man. he deserves it.

symon losing his cool with the trade war while the gang stares in surprise was such a fun moment, so of course i had to doodle it (and thank you @vice-president-galade for the screenshots!).

full pics below the cut!

[androgynouspenguinexpert]

he's had a long day of dealing with marcus' shenanigans

[alejandramelody]

Old man yaoi doodles ✨

Demon Anton by _BLUBOT_  Angel Peppino by Doeiika​ And Swap Peppino by Rascal-Rose ​​

[mingyuskim]

[notsquid]

Silly lads/pos

Bonus

[mythallia]

redacted as cats p2

your birth month, your employed redacted cat

REMEMBER: by default we are all nick, NYA

[heartbeetz]

😶...

[teenytinyapprentice]

one of my contributions to PL secret santa 2022 @layton-secretsanta​

for Er @folsensory - a piece of the lovebirds Anton and Sophia. I was delighted to get a chance to draw more of Folsense, it’s atmosphere is so dreamlike and magical. - I hope you enjoy!

[swordfaery]

anyway my favourite thing about dead men fanfiction is the wildly different characters we all write. like. not even the ones who have been dead for years and have so little actual characterisation but even the ones who were alive in canon were probably very different one hundred, two hundred, three hundred years ago. also theyre under characterised in fiction. also we are all just having fun

[grif-hawaiian-rolls]

Its gonna b a hot minute before i have the energy for this one (warthogs my be-fucking-loathed) to be done but in the meantime have a scribbly work in progress :3

[ratatatastic]

and now its time for everyones favourite presser minigame! forcing the guy on the mic to compliment the teammate thats sitting right next to him!!1!!1 but make it lundy having to praise erod edition like he couldnt have found other ways to torture lundy but thisll do

"how good has evan been—i mean you dont have to listen" both of them chuffing up at that oh they both found that very amusing

"i think i already said a lot of good things about him but yeah hes been really good this series" aka oh god here we go again do i have to do this mom dont make me do this i dont want to do this please dont make me-fineeeeeee

roddy just nodding along like yeah he has already praised me a lot in front of you guys mmmm as he continues to listen intently to lundy barfing out praise yet again, stroking his beard in thought hes a grizzled old man he is also stimming but also a very grizzled and haggard old man (the other time hes done this it was to keep a straight face as he tried to hide his smile with his hand so honestly its just amusing to me to see him do it but hes channeling his inner gandalf)

"thanks" i dont think ill ever get over erods stoicim being broken because he wants to genuinely thank lundy (off mic) and the way he bumps his arm to get his attention and as an affectionate gesture but lundys doing too good of a job of acting subtly because erod looks like he wants to thank him again thinking he didnt hear him the first time and tries to catch his eye while lundy rubs his side like it mightve stung a bit i-

IM SORRY THE AUDIBLE SLAP OF EROD HITTING LUNDYS ARM LIKE HOW HARD DID YOU HIT HIM IT GOT CAUGHT ON THE MIC AND LUNDYS TRYING TO ACT LIKE IT DIDNT HAPPEN WHEN WE ALL HEARD IT

post practise interview | 6.20.24 (x)