#MEPHY LION!!!!

[kairi-nanami]

mephy is such a silly guy here

@fledbeast578 & @brucecipher i hope you like!!

[doc-davey]

Need to take a moment to talk about these books I have lol.

These books about David/Jonathan, I love and hate. Idk, like, I just can’t point out exactly, it’s probably the way David/Jonathan are depicted, but it really does frustrate me a little while reading this David/Jonathan trilogy.

It’s genuinely written well, like the writing isn’t corny or overly detailed lol. But it’s written with a Christian perspective, so David and Jonathan aren’t gay in this (sigh). 😞 But in these books, usually each chapter goes back and forth from Jonathan and David’s pov, and I love that.

The first two books are in David and Jonathan’s pov, but in the third book “My Father the King”, it’s in David and Mephibosheth’s pov. I get a lot of inspo for Mephi’s story from this book, but I actually have yet to finish the book because I’m too scared to finish 😭 (it’s literally just like my situation with the Prince’s Psalm atm lmaoo)

But just from reading the first two books, it’s so obviously written for them to be in love. The books are literally about their relationship. David and Jonathan meets, they connect, they share their deepest secrets and feelings, they fight side by side, and David even saves Jonathan from dying in battle!! Jonathan gets shot by arrows, and David wouldn’t stop visiting him. And you know what, Jonathan also saves David from dying in battle! And there’s a moment where David and Jonathan finds a waterfall, and Jonathan would playfully shove David into the water, and they would swim together on a cool night, just like the Simba and Nala water scene from The Lion King with “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” playing in the background if you know what I mean 😭 like AAAABABBAAAKSK, and throughout the books, even in the third book, David won’t stop yapping about how he constantly sees Jonathan in his dreams, as well as Jonathan who can’t get David out of his mind 😭 LIKE- NAHHH ☠️ hello??? Yeah, they’re definitely not in love or something… 🤔

But you know what, reading these books frustrated me so much.. The author made sure to constantly pull out the “we’re just friends!” card, so often 💀 it honestly doesn’t make sense to me ngl, from they way wanted to depict David and Jonathan’s relationship. Let me just say- if you’re going to dedicate an entire trilogy about David and Jonathan’s relationship only… there’s no fucking way you can pull it off as them just being “friends”, idk, it’s just not possible to me. The author would do this by, of course, “giving them a wife tactic”, but literally in the book, they cared more about each other than their wives LOL.

But yeah, my little review of this trilogy that I’ve been wanting to talk about. You can always check it out for yourself, I’d say I only recommend it if you like David retellings in general and if you want some Jonathan angst. Not kidding with the Jonathan angst 😭 he is so angsty in the books and a literal punching bag because every bad thing would happen to him. Like I would read about David going on some adventure, and when I turn to the next chapter, Jonathan is absolutely doomed by something 😭

And also, if you can handle the random preaching in the books where David breaks the forth wall and says that G-d is awesome or something and Jesus is coming, y’know, then perhaps you’ll enjoy the series 👍 (or maybe not)

[tazienimp]

The Parting of Blood

Dark Gaia: "You've changed... Where did my sweet, trusting little brother go, hmm?"

Chip: "I think you've mistaken who here has changed. You have become uncaring, and negligent in your duties, marrying some creature and allowing it to corrupt you"

Dark Gaia: "So narrow minded~"

Okay, so, despite the intense art block i mentioned before, i did manage to get this done tonight, i also threw in an unclothed version as a treat and so i can use it as a future reference. I was waiting for inspo to kick in regarding the clothing. People back then were more modest, but Dark Gaia's a disrespectful bastard. For Chip i went with something more similar to the clothing i designed for Prince Null. Just a lot less modern and less revealing.

I also used Null as a basis for how i designed Dark Gaia. He is the most visually close to his actual genetics than the other Mephies, so it made designing Dark Gaia much easier given Dark Gaia is his dad.

I have also decided that the mobian side of Chip and Dark Gaia are lions. I struggled for a long time deciding on what species they would be, besides just ancient/mobian hybrids, but i think lion works best for them. Especially given Mephy is genetically a cat. Cliche, maybe, given they're royalty, but i dig it.

Also regarding their necklaces, it's basically a high tech form of medicine, to ward of the de-evolution plaguing the ancients at the time. It didn't work as intended, however it ensured that Chip never completely lost himself (Dw when Chip gave his to Sonic it didn't effect him, the de-evolution process was over by then). Dark Gaia's broke when he fully transformed into the monster buried within the earth that we all know him now to be, causing his free will to be lost forever to instinctive rage.

Next up, lore. I have been flip flopping about this for a very long time. But i think I've figured out how i believe it happened. The Gaia kingdom, later became Camelot. The people of Soleanna conquered them and took the land. The surviving royal family tied to King Arthur fled, and Sonic descended from them. Basically though, Soleanna not only stole the land from Camelot, but also their culture. Their scriptures, clothing, legends, even architecture, all were taken and absorbed by Soleanna over time. And the eagle that saved the land? It was Chip saving the people from a volcanic eruption, the one that birthed the Eternal Flame, as he put the land back together thousands of years ago at the end of one of his fights with his brother. However, the story of Chip warped over time as all legends do, and people of modern times believe it was an eagle. Some even believe it was Solaris itself. However, the Eternal Flame was nothing more than an egg. Solaris did not exist in its true form until Mephiles and Iblis were born during the lab accident. Though, the true Solaris did copy the appearance of the eagle as best it could once Mephy learned of the legend.

The Solaris twins, no matter the timeline, will never know of their true origins, as their father and the creature that corrupted him hailed from an era too far back in the past for any of the Mephies to see.

And despite their father long since devolving into beastly insanity, their mother still haunts the bloodline. Just like she haunted Dark Gaia.

That's my take on the Gaia twins XDDDD of course it's Dark Gaia's second form instead of his first form, but the most important thing about his part in the story is his corruption. Maybe someday I'll draw how he first looked.

Also in any pictures i draw of them where their real names are used, that part of the text is gonna be censored. I'm gonna keep calling them Chip and Dark Gaia, because pretending their names are lost to time could be extremely fun (and i also don't feel like coming up with real names for them). Plus it leaves me some leeway for if Sega ever decides to properly name them, given we now have info about the Gaian people. Which i totally called, btw~ i fuckin knew they didn't start off as just, The Gaias.

Anyways there you go, probs gonn eat and then conk out again, but they're done, and they're so pretty. Well... Chip is pretty, and then some, Dark Gaia's an ugly bastard but we love him anyway. Mephy and Ibby def got their pretty genes from their mother and uncle, cause they sure didn't get it from their dad.

[torihakaraublog]

Obey Me! Nightbringer "Absolute Zero" Pop Quiz

!WARNING SPOILERS FOR EVENT!

Okay sit down. I have thoughs (both good and bad).

This event did not start off not great... I don't mind another festival event persay cause it's cool seeing different events celebrated in the Devildom, but I didn't really get how this one worked. It's for the frost wolf 🐺 guy, to please/honor him. Dance (okay makes sense), Flowers (not surprising), Ice sculptures (Ooo fun), Fasting (alright). Except apparently only a few people need to participate in the fasting????

I personally have never participated in fasting, but I don't think it works that way normally?? (Please correct me if I'm wrong).

And idk this ^^ also seemed odd to me?

However, I do think think the story does improve a bit. I like that the frost wolf is trying to take us away because it wants the bond everyone has with each other. 💜 and there is a lot of cute individual moments.

Levi picking the frost flower 🌼 petals :3

The side character moments were fantastic! Love squirrels for one thing! Planting with Raphael and hanging up posters with Mephi also super sweet! Like Mephi is trying so hard to help Diavolo anyway he can. What a champ!

Then in the later chapters the support they show you!! Ahhh! I can't wait for them to be dateable 💜

Diavolo was the star of this event for me 🌟 they really showcased his playful side! I was laughing so hard at these parts xD the music change on the ice sculpture one was splendid 🤣

Now back to some negatives... maybe I'm not far enough in the main story, but I think this event implies we live with the brothers. They lay on a bit too thick that they can't live without me. Why do I move to purgatory hall? Why can't I go back to my room in cocytus hall?? They can live without me... I can still visit?

These little 'activities' were fun and I liked how they fit the theme of the festival. But I think it would have been better to fill the lanterns with past good memories or memories of looking back at the festival instead of 'forcing' moments with the intent to fill the memories.

(Activities - not in order)

Satan: going to amusement park.

Simeon: snow globe making.

Mammon: race.

Levi: singing. (Anime love song)

Lucifer: snow fort.

Asmo: dance?

Luke: ?

Bel: ?

Solomon: ?

Barbatos: perfume making. (For eachother)

Diavolo: sherbert making.

Beel: ice block weight guessing.

I did this last night and already forgot half of them ����

My faves were Lucifer and Diavolo's moments.

So sweet of him to notice we would need a rest + cuddle! :3

This activity was just fun! I wanna make ice cream flavors for people I know!

The timeline where we dress up as an ice lion was so ridiculous lmao they were really tossing so many things in this event. As a whole I didn't really like it, but because some individual parts were so good it kinda made up for that lol.

[tainbocuailnge]

Will we ever get a full expert opinion tier list of female Fate characters who should and should not have slicked back hair?

that sounds like a lot of work that would grow outdated the moment a new banner drops so instead I'm going to explain some of the design patterns around hairstyle in fate so that you can use your own brain to determine when slicked hair is the best choice (because no matter how horny i may be, the answer is not "always")

first of all there's a difference between base design and alternate outfits for ce's, costumes, fanart, etc. if it's an alternate outfit you should always consider slicked hair because alt outfits have much more leeway in how they should fit into the overall design patterns and depending on the context the look being somewhat out of character will actually be its charm point. you should consider different hairstyles just in general actually, not just slicked, because anime characters tend to rely a lot on the shape of their hair to be recognisable so changing the shape of the hair without accidentally turning them into someone else (especially with how many characters already intentionally look similar) is a good design challenge. pako changes karna and arjuna's hair around a lot for example, but my favourite case is actually mephy's ce's. it's a complete image change every time but you can still see it's the same clown

now as I've explained in the other post slicked hair is a style that takes active effort to achieve, so it signifies someone who does not care that they are seen but they do care how they are seen. slicked hair is a display of competence, confidence, authority, and the desire to inform others of these qualities (regardless of the truth of this claim). there are simpler ways to get your hair out of your face without actually slicking it so slicked hair conveys a degree of vanity, a concern with appearances. a slicked hair character either thinks they're hot shit, or they want other people to think they're hot shit. tightly pushed back hair conveys propriety rather than the boisterous confidence of spiky hair, but either way what it says is "I know what I'm doing". not everyone is confident and not everyone who is confident will also be concerned with appearances enough to slick their hair about it, so while slicked hair is universal as sex appeal it's not always appropriate as character design element.

also since we're talking female characters and those tend to have long hair i have to make the distinction between pushing your hair back and having it pulled back in a ponytail, these are very different flavours and I'm talking about the former (although they can overlap in the case of someone with bangs pushing them back while also having a ponytail). ponytails have a practical element to them that slicked hair lacks by virtue of the effort required. hairbands on the other hand will subtly enhance the flavour of slicked hair if used in the right context.

slicked hair Does also carry connotations of masculinity because of how aforementioned traits are designated masculine in type moon (but also anime design in general) so that is still something to consider in how you apply it, not to dissuade you from applying slicked hair to female characters but to do so with intent and purpose. drake, musashi, kiichi, kagetora, these all would have their hotness enhanced immensely if their standard design had slicked hair because that touch of masculinity is already part of their sex appeal. quetzalcoatl, medb, jing ke, the likes of these have the benefit of hair accessories to get the intentional display of confidence while maintaining the more feminine appeal they also have to get the best of both worlds. koyanskaya's ideal secretary + head of an interdimensional weapon dealing empire image begs for a slicked hair look. atalante should honestly have her hair back just because it makes her look faster + resembles lion's mane. the list goes on.

there's a bit of muddled water when it comes to hair like achilles or protocu or saber lancelot have, where part of it is pushed back but they still have that bang. i don't really count those as slicked hair but they're often still designed with the intent of dipping into that confident slicked hair image and whenever I do see a female character with her hair back it's usually like this. it's not nearly as sexy though so fuck em, don't do this, commit to the hairline or face my eternal curse

now to really identify where it's appropriate to slick a character's hair it's important to identify when type moon does the complete opposite and has a character's hair cover one or both of their eyes, because it gives context on how hair is used for characterisation. a lot of characters in fate hide (part of) their face as a clue that there is something shaky about their identity. eyes are the windows to the soul, so covering the eyes makes the soul ambiguous. mashu's hair covers one eye because she was barely human for the longest time and is still figuring out her place in the world. robin's hair covers one eye because he's one of many robin hoods and isn't eager to be their sole representative. kippoushi and maou nobu cover one eye because they share their saint graph with tons of different nobus and you're only ever seeing a small part of the whole. fran covers her eyes because she's artificial and was denied even her own name let alone identity, and she shows one of her eyes in her summer version because she's building her own life with her new dads now. kotarou covers his eyes because he's one of many generations of fuuma kotarou working from the shadows. kariya gets half his face fucked up including his eye because he's losing himself to his grudges the further the 4th war goes on. anastasia actually does it because mashu does it which is a whole other post i probably won't make so don't even worry about it

if a character doesn't HAVE a face (identity) then they can't slick their hair back to put that face on full display because there's just nothing there. conversely, slicking their hair means they know exactly who they are. this does not however mean that these characters should never slick their hair back, it just means that you need to think carefully about what it would mean for them. maou nobu can't have slicked hair even though she ticks all the boxes for the character traits associated with it because her character concept leans into the ambiguity of not knowing what the rest of her face looks like, but if mashu were to push her hair back it would signify her casting aside all doubts and forming an identity she takes pride in. for arjuna, slicking his hair every now and then even though he's got such a complex about wanting to hide his "true face" is a hint that there's actually nothing fundamentally wrong with him at all, he's just really concerned with his image.

finally since this is fate you also have to consider what other characters they look like because this is a kaleidoscopic spider web and we're all just bugs stuck in it. mordred wants to portray an image of competence but he can't have his hair back as part of any of his default looks because it's important to the story that he looks like arturia, and it's also important to him that he looks like arturia as proof that they're related. if he then slicks it back in his suit it's a sign that he's moving away from clinging to this identity as "king arthur's son" and figuring out his own sense of self. koyanskaya meanwhile has tons of different looks and makes a point of hiding the shape of her tamamo bangs in a bunch of them because she doesn't want to associate with the tamamo nine, so it makes sense for her to have a look where she pushes her bangs back while she's #girlbossing. saber can't have alt costumes where her bangs are significantly different because her hair is such a cornerstone of fate design and then she wouldn't be saber anymore, but nero can pull it off because she's gilgamesh flavoured saber so it won't destroy her character image if her default casual look has slicked hair. for kama she may not have the actual confidence but especially as a beast she has the false bravado for it and occasionally slicking her hair to play with the masculine flavouring it gives can work miracles regarding kama originally being a male figure without losing the link to sakura's character themes.

im going to end this post on shilling good game tales of berseria because when i found out they have a built in slicked hair option for every party member (so that their anime bangs don't clip through any hats you might put on them) it was like 10 birthdays at once, they even modeled unique hairlines that account for their default hairstyle for each of them.

[glitchy-prankster]

Suddenly a Navi that looked like a clock with arms ran up and lifted Mephy. The odd Navi shouted "I found my sense of humor!"

Mephy, though confused as to why he was being lifted up by this odd Navi, chuckled.  “Good!”

[tazienimp]

He's a lil generic looking but tbf he was always a lil generic looking, but i tried to keep him as close as he looks to in game as possible, just, mobianified, this phase specifically.

I'll design clothes later, right now you get fuzzy boi

He's a lion, btw. Both him and Chip were half lion mobian. That's why Mephiles and Iblis are biologically cats. Yanno, besides the void influence in their dna. Cause Ruin isn't a cat. No one... really knows what Ruin is, but they damn sure aren't a cat. Probably more like a wolf, or something along those lines.

I might tweak it later, but, tbh i kinda like where he ended up. I knew he was gonna be the most difficult one btw, cause i already have something in mind for Chip cause there's more there to work with. Dark Gaia is extremely bland in his design in a sense that it's... difficult to make him fuzzy, due to all the lizard shit he has goin on.

They're also half ancient, but the mobian genes are super strong within them both, so they appear more mobian than ancient. ESPECIALLY Dark Gaia. Also I'm not giving them proper names, i think it would be cool if their names were lost to time, and whenever i draw them again ima have their 'names' censored out like it's an SCP file, i think that'd be fun

I'm using these pics of Null, Mephy, and Iblis for genetic reference. Null because he never took anyone's shadow as his own so that is how Mephiles should've ACTUALLY looked had things been different (minus the docked ears), and Ibby cause he extremely genetically similar to their dad even if his form has a little bit of his brother mixed in due to the uneven split of Solaris that caused his mobianification. And Mephy just, cause, and i don't have any pics of Ibby by himself.

Also, no Mephy didn't get his fucked up spine from their dad, that was from being forcibly curled up in the fetal position for 10 years and his body just, got used to being like that even though he was only vapor at the time. Seriously, he's gooped into a puddle only to try and reform to fix his spine, like over a hundred times, and it never worked

Also also, no Mephy and Ibby don't know they're the sons of Dark Gaia.