#Omen Darkly

[greykolla-art]

Skulduggery only has two moods when it comes to the kids in his life.🙏

(I know Val isn’t really a kid, but…She’s 25 and Skul is 450. 😂)

(And I must simply state how much I care about Omen Darkly.💗 he’s so sweet and way too good for Skul and Val’s tornado of trauma.👏)

[whimsylueur]

LOOK MA, A MURDER

Of crows 🐦‍⬛😎

Sketches for @maidofdarkness23’s Winged AU

I was obsessed with a secret language between the arbiters that’s just bird chitter, in public they just sound insane HAHA

[detective-inspector-her]

Art for Seb by @neims-skeleton-obsession

Please

Father

Why did you make this guy

Now I'm thinking about them

[incorrect-niche-quotes]

Did you know you can just start screaming, basically anywhere? It's not illegal or anything

-Omen

[thisreallyrattlesmybones]

skully p characters as stock photos part ???

the council of elders:

the monster fuckers hunters:

cassandra pharos:

skulduggery's fucking disguise:

kenspeckle:

clarabelle:

omen:

[incorrectspquotes]

Valkyrie: Omen, please tell us you have good news. Omen: Well, it's complicated, because I don't have good news, but I really want you guys to like me.

[rock-crusher]

I love Sebastian and Bennet's friendship so much. Teen Dad and Divorced Dad. And they're both so silly

[nicstylus]

How should I color the phase two covers?

Hi, yes, I'm the crazy person that finished (!!) all the phase one covers and now I'm moving on to bigger better the next things. Here's my thought process so far: Overall, I'm gonna do what I did with Phase One: I'll keep the characters the same, in the same spots. - I'll keep the big color splashes in the backgrounds. Imo that's what makes these six books scream "WE'RE PHASE TWO" and set them apart from Phase One, which had a ton of empty space (which I fixed more or less)

- I'll improve anatomy and make the lighting make more sense

- I'll do two versions, one with a whiteish canvas and one with a blackish canvas

But! I don't like how inconsistent the colors are. Two books are black and white, two are monochrome-ish, one is in full color and one is like... kinda colored???

So. We're gonna pick ONE style, either black and white, fully colored or monochrome, and run with it.

Here are really bad tracings (yeah yeah) of your options for three of my options: you're just gonna have to use your imagination for the rest, I believe in you

Note: You're getting the splash and color accents/lighting no matter which one you pick because again, that's what makes the phase two covers stand out- they're vividly one color

POLL OPTIONS (and my personal tier list)

A - Muted colored characters with a vivid color splash

B - Fully color/shade the characters, and have a vivid color splash background

C - Fully color/shade the characters, and have a muted, darker color splash background

D - Black and White characters, vivid color splash

E - Monochrome characters to match the color splash

F - Keep the colors as they are on the original covers. (This is what I did for phase one: I will still improve on lighting and stuff, but if the cover is in black and white, mine will be in black and white.) (why tho?) Yes, this was copy pasted from reddit I'm too lazy to type everything again

[lazulian-devil]

Ive been thinking about Omen Darkly again.

And how, even though the story is about Valkyrie and Skulduggery, his storyline just feels so raw.

Valkyrie has everything. She has all the power and all the trauma of being a god. She has an overpowered sorcerer as a best friend. She has a family that loves her, a sister she would do everything for, a girlfriend, a dog. Yes, she suffered for it. But she still had a support system and friends. And she turned out to be kind of a lovable asshole that I think I would like a lot less if I met her. Shes very selfish. And shes allowed to be selfish because shes powerful. Im not saying shes only selfish and that is her defining character trait. But y'all know what I mean.

Omen though. Omen has nothing. Omen is a literal punching bag. Omen has no power and still all of the trauma. He has no family, he has lost his brother (His beloved, wonderful brother that deserves only the best) in a horrendous twist of fate. He had to grow up so quick. And then he had to grow up again and become a whole different person with all that responsibility. He is exploited, used and thrown away at every goshdarn turn.

But Omen? Omen is kind. Omen is good. Omen prevails in a world that spits in his face over and over and over again. Omen Darkly faces unbelievable odds and falls down so many times and yet he always stands up. Not because of some divine power or some belief that he is better, blessed by birth, blessed by blood. Because he has to. Because he loves the people around him. Because he wants to be seen. And Omen friggin Darkly is seen by so many and liked by so many and he doesnt even know. He finds a place in which people look up to him and he has to leave them all behind and go back into the darkness. And yet, he still continues on.

Omen Darkly is just... Its just a good fucking character in a world filled with shitty selfish world-ending-power sorcerers. And I like that. I like that quite a bit.

(If anything happens to him in AMFOM I will kill Derek Landy with my kindness).

[pizzaboat]

I literally cannot believe one of the only children's book series to keep me hooked as a kid fell down the "marvel trap"

When they wanna make it a "cinematic universe"

But it's a book series, it already had a universe. It was fun. It was a *book series*

I'm not fucking joking when I say phase 2 was an awful idea.

Like, the protagonists are so poorly balanced.

Val is boring and depressed, and her girlfriend spawns as a cardboard cut out with no build up or resolution

But Omen is the worst mistake

Omen is sad pathetic boy with nothing good going for him and he's tanking his own life by having all the ambition of a sock puppet. He's got an annoying and self-centered best friend who's superficial habits makes you feel like there's some transphobia thrown in with that ignorance of the topic

All his classmates are boring. They could've been fun. Christ knows phase one characters could be fun. But nope.

There's never any thought put into the direction of Omen's life. He's like an afterthought because someone told Derek he had to put another kid in the book. Omen doesn't even do anything in Midnight except get his butt kicked when Alice gets kidnapped and stand there awkwardly the rest of the time

I'm not convinced Derek couldn't have thought of something else to do with him. Making the choice to never include him in a single adventure his brother had, was a bad idea

Because I get that it was supposed to be "omen is nothing like his brother, he lives a different life but he wants adventure to feel like his life has value"

But that could've been achieved in a much more effective way, with an adventure brother RIGHT beside him. And it would've given you a reason to give a shit about Auger since Omen whinges about him half the time

Why are the most important people in Omens life only mentioned in passing? I feel like I'm watching it all happen through a car door window

If you're gonna try and make a "cinematic universe" in a damn book series, you might wanna put more thought into your "other universe" or whatever

[yeehaw-razor-dirt-man]

Emmeline: Auger.

Auger: Emmeline.

Omen: Omen.

[winter-wise]

Omen Darkly as Sebastian Tao:

[detective-inspector-her]

[i-will-kill-you-with-a-book]

Derek Landy really just let his intrusive thoughts win

If you even think your scene feels flat Or there isn't enough action in it. Remember in a skulduggery pleasant book there's like 3 pages of two lads just threatening and talking about kneeing each other in the groin.

[incorrect-niche-quotes]

Omen: I have an idea

Axelia: ...a good one?

Omen: Let's not get ahead of ourselves

[staticart]

Day 19: Faceless One

So apparently them fuckers are supposed to look like cuthulu? Nah, thems som fucked up bugs