#Suddenly Lore

[eriisaam]

So why is the Extra Fairy so Extra anyways?

Because I feel particularly chatty today, and because that deep dive post about Angewomon, LadyDevimon, and Mastemon did something for me, here's more lore of explaining why Spectabilis is just... like that.

Remember this idiot? Save for their hair not originally being that color, they're just a regular idiot into regular things like digimon and card games on motorcycles and also being a cat nut. And then as you all know by now, shit happened, and that's what led to their hair being like that.

However, as many of you who know Ephrel also already know, one of their other changes over the course of Shit That Keeps Happening To Them is they became a dokkalfar. Except that whereas the two other dokkalfars we know of already look like this:

Ephrel - becoming Spectabilis - went a step further above and beyond to become this horrid thing:

So what happened?

The short answer? Because their digimon partners (of the two of their original three to still be alive to this day) did include Angewomon and LadyDevimon, and when one or the other isn't already serving a role in aiding their widow and his eventual other-partners before Ephrel swooped in to get fresh with them too, both of them can combine into Mastemon, who is their main primary partner.

Meaning that yes, their partners are the "Love Wins" duo, and Mastemon went on to HEAVILY influence a large part of Spectabilis's design, chief among them their numerous wings. This detail, I was going to hash out way moreso when I got Ephrel's reference sheet down, but fuck it, let's go over it now while we're here.

So like mentioned in the post that inspired why this post is suddenly a thing now: The original way Mastemon as a whole debuted into the canon series was because of Mirei. In her introduction in RE: Digitized, she has both an Angewomon and LadyDevimon as her partners (and for those confused from the anime side about a tamer with more than one partner besides Willis being special with two: It's very common on the gaming side of digimon for tamers to have a party of up to three active digimon at a time, and Sparrow and Ephrel fall in line with that, which is why both of them get often referenced from a place of holding expectations they can seek up to three primary partners each. At time of typing, however, Robin, Chrom, Takumi, and Sharena only ever had one yet, all the alfr collectively share another one, and Sparrow still only really had two while Ephrel is the only one who has a full roster twice: Once prior to being Spectabilis, and again leading to their ascended alt with a different third member from the first time).

In Cyber Sleuth, this introduced Mastemon and led to the gif above I'm sure some of you came across in the wild, where Angewomon and Ladydevimon combined with the power of yuri to become what you see as Mastemon. Eventually after this (unless you were either a hardcore min-maxxer and/or cheating the game to your heart's content), you yourself can also take any angewomon or ladydevimon you raised up in your game, and then combine the two to make your own Mastemon.

In terms of Golden Fates specifically, Ephrel and Mirei do actually know each other far prior to Ephrel becoming a summoner, and is one of the things they end up sneaking by their supports as an 'oh, did I forget to mention that? Oops, my bad.' They're an airhead. That's just how they are sometimes.

She ends up being one of the contacts Ephrel calls in a favor for during quite a few instances throughout Golden Fates's version of the various books, but especially in regards to Tylon and Orion upon involving the Order of Heroes more in the World of Beasts. By Cyber Sleuth's point and thereafter, she is effectively a missingno not unlike Teru, except whereas Teru has more power offset by increased instability issues actually honing said power (especially at first), Mirei is limited, but much more controlled, especially as a lot of her abilities at this point were either boosted by, or influenced with, a lot of the digimon handled in her care, including her two partners. She can freely travel inside and out of the Digital World directly, via any electronic or internet connection channel, and if a similar case is seen in others, she's been shown to also tutor what she knows in other hopefuls to hone in on a similar power (including Aiba, the protagonist in Cyber Sleuth, seen above). This not only was what influenced Ephrel's partner decision (on top of being a cat nut already in gravitating to kitties like Gatomon/Tailmon and BlackTailmon anyways and to the surprise of nobody, the replacement third is another gatomon variant in mikemon) to work up to their own mastemon, but Mirei would later go rogue on her own accord in having no problems or hold backs with mingling with other outer worlds outside of the World of Digimon, including taking fancy with a lot of digimon-leaning monsters (such as the porygon family or rotom on the pokemon side) and how they can interact with the Digital World, or being a bit of an info broker (to an extent and with steep prices, albeit) to other heroes from these worlds, in particular Jenny and Gado once they found out about her.

It may come as no surprise, then, to learn that on top of Mastemon already pioneering a lot of Ephrel's later thematics about 'Light is not Good/Dark is not Evil' duality, this also influenced both their final current partner who can digivolve all the way to Diarbbitmon, but Diarbbitmon becoming a heavier influence on Ephrel's Ascended Alt in lieu of Freyja or Freyr influencing it instead (as they drew power from their reinstated bond with their previous two partners and a new bond fusing directly with the third, rather than draw power from either vanir siblings like Triandra, Plumeria and Peony (and for this AU Mirabilis) did instead).

This theme, on top of influencing Ephrel's design of borrowing both light and dark elements, angelic and demonic themeings, and seeing and spinning things from a grey 'it's about the intent more than the tool' theme, also played out a lot in how they approach and inspire edge cases like Lyon and Robin developing their own powers from the ashes of their traumas with Fomortiis and Grima respectively, and also why they take such a malicious-compliance approach as Spectabilis of being a nightmare fairy whose doing a shit job of actually instilling nightmares in people. (Once adopting Triandra and Plumeria proper, they also tried to inspire a similar course shift likewise in recontextualizing either of their powers and themes likewise.)

Which brings me to my last point, and the point that became why I originally wanted to hold back going too deep into this until Ephrel had a proper reference sheet.... and then my dumb-ass didn't do that still. orz

As you can guess as much, Mastemon held such a strong influence over Ephrel, that it also bled out into Spectabilis's design as well. Except whereas even Mastemon kept an even split of what part of her was light and dark, Spectabilis mixed the two influences together evenly: Both sides have light, dark, and the grey areas in between.

But! There's also a story to tell in the wings that's a lot harder to see outside of a would-be reference (cuz Spectabilis themself is in the way of it), which is that each wing, on top of still shining through how strong a bond Ephrel maintained with their partners, also had a story to tell in the wings. Every wing has an eye not exactly far off from the grimeal six-set-of-eyes (and seeing as how Ephrel died the second time somewhat possessed by Grima, only for Freyja to make a mess of things that eventually led to Tangie, probably IS Grima's eyes), each wing also depicts a snapshot of Ephrel's three different lifetimes:

The upper 'bird wings' were heavily influenced the most by Ephrel's life as an isekai'd robinsona: They carry Grima's original feathered wings, had the heaviest influence in all the other wings (as every single wing maintains the eyes, and the eyes even emote when I can be assed to actually draw a demonstration of this some day), and these wings show the moment that Ephrel pierced their own heart to take their own life in sacrifice, so that they wouldn't take Chrom's life instead like they were supposed to.

The second strongest influence is in their 'demonic bat' wings. It also had a heavy 'how we got here' influence, especially as Spectabilis (when not conflated with 'Mirage Grima', the state Tangie was prior to stabilizing as the present day digimon partner of Chrom), is technically considered Ephrel's fallen alt. In these wings, it tells of the moment Breidablik was accidentally discharged, and in the process, the live round tore through Ephrel's chest and heart and took their life, which then was what became that turning point where Ephrel eventually set off the whole cycle leading to this aforementioned 'fallen alt'.

And finally, the 'tail' wings. The least formed, the least dramatic, and the tiniest set of wings compared to the more realized and impressive sets of wings in the above. On top of Grima's influence once again playing a role (six-winged beastie), these wings are the least developed, the most obscured, and the sticking point to make Spectabilis so dramatically weird compared to their four-winged 'normal' counterparts in Triandra and Plumeria.

The reason they're so small? They represent Ephrel's current life, so they have the shortest and smallest influence over them. They're also the only set of wings NOT to depict Ephrel's death, but rather, how we got here in this life: Freyja's beast form as a fae goat being permanently etched into these wings and branding them as one of her servants.

Incidentally? When Chrom found out about that last bit of Freyja essentially branding Ephrel as 'hers', he was incredipissed. Though with the arrival of Mahiro, and with them, the realization Ephrel previously had power from being an elf class, he got his revenge on a very long and drawn out petty-war between the two from the point Ephrel was reinstated into the Order of Heroes onwards.

"Oh? Spectabilis was of the fae folk once before? I suppose then their fate as my alfr was destined all along. 'I can change fate?' By proceeding to play out their fate exactly as intended anyways? Imagine that..."

"Oh? Interested in Ephrel's elf past? Yeah, apparently, elves of Mahiro's homeland can do a lot of things: Create barriers that heavily offset a lot of damage, restore people's mana, mass heal the whole party, hit entire armies and stun-lock them forcefully into dancing... Funny how none of that was anything they can do with your alfr powers, huh. If anything, it's almost as if your powers weakened them even. Imagine that... "

[paintedcrows]

Unintended consequence of creating my own Bill... He watches me draw now...

The Horrible Triangle in question:

[redrobin-detective]

I can't stop thinking about how funny it is that Aang had all this secret lore on Zuko because of the Blue Spirit that he just, didn't share with the Gaang. That boy knew that Zuko was capable of fighting extremely well without bending, was excellent with swords and unnaturally good at infiltration and espionage. And then just never brought it up.

Katara's yelling at Zuko on how he thinks he'd be able to find and break into the Sun Warrior Temple while Aang is fidgeting in the background. Sokka starts giving Zuko a hard time about his swords, asking if a spoiled prince would know how to use them. Aang is vibrating unsure of how to explain that Sokka Might Die if he tried to swordfight Zuko unprepared but now its been too long and it'd be super awkward to bring up.

[mooneggtarts]

Not full designs yet but close enough. Just wanna share this piece of thought :DD

CG designs are here!

[ruxxifystars]

[teadragn]

my little sky kids <3

[pansy-picnics]

“They always used to joke about how alike we were— And I always figured it was just because of our looks, but…The more I hear about her…I think I’m starting to get what they *actually* meant. To be honest, I…kind of wish I had gotten the chance to meet her. If she was still around when I was a kid…I don’t know. Maybe I wouldn’t have felt so alone.”

[lets-go-hurt-someone]

Someone on reddit made a tier list post about which BG3 characters knew where the clit was and whether or not they could/would do anything useful with it. And some people in the comments seemed to think Gortash would never bother to reciprocate, which, I get, but I genuinely think as a character trait Gortash is probably mercenarily good at sex. Like true sociopathic levels of “I perfected this without ego so I could manipulate people better, so if you ask me about it I’m definitely gonna say I’m just a real sensitive guy”

Like no, I agree he absolutely is not giving one iota more effort than is personally worth it to him, but all I’m saying is I could definitely see him deciding learning to be good at seducing people was 100% worth the potential cost/benefit analysis and leaning into that, especially when he was, well, young and handsome~

so anyway yeah imo gortash is definitely a fuckboy

[northern-passage]

Handler Lea Chen -> Watcher Lea Chen

[eriisaam]

which oc is the Loudest 🗣 ?

All of them to an extent, but usually Kyo and Eclair on average 😂

It's more like they all have a moment of being CAPSLOCK LEVELS OF LOUD but have different ways and reasons of the why's and how's that they tend to get to be that loud, just those two are the most common.

Kyo is not just loud in a sense that he can be crabby and makes his disgruntling loud and clear, but he's also the most used to crowd control in speaking with a loud, prominently booming voice to silence a room and grab attention, something the other summoners usually do (but significantly less gracefully) moreso when you push them to their breaking point than as a skill they whip out whenever like Kyo.

Eclair's more loud out of excitement. He's like an excited puppy, his indoor voice of sorts can be a bit louder than the others, and he's usually the one more consistently loud not-entirely-on-purpose out of pure self-unawareness, unless there's something else that came up that made his tone even out and go lower. Ironically, he's the most naturally-loud when he's Eclair, whereas it always felt like he has to put the effort in to be loud and commanding as Magni, something that Thorr quickly picked up on and isn't exactly thrilled on seeing the contrast (since Magni is the most like her, and she expects him to have a similar commanding air to him, which doesn't quite stick the landing when he's voiced so timid and soft-spoken and hesitant over assured and dominating like her expectations of him).

The others kind of vary way more on 'you have to really work on them to bring it out' where Teru and Erin have somewhat shorter fuses and are easier to rile up into getting loud, whereas it speaks volumes the minute soft-spoken-in-general Ephrel or normally-the-softest-and-levelled-Sparrow suddenly decides to have a booming presence in their voice out of nowhere and/or weren't beaten to the punch by someone else first. (And it's definitely happened before, and made more than their fair share of heroes - support or otherwise - immediately jump.)

A part of it that also muddies it (and why even the short-tempered ones aren't normally, consistently all that loud compared to Kyo and Eclair) is they might also differ to other means to command a room that isn't solely on just how loud they get, between Teru and especially Erin commanding the room by simply sharing the shit out of people until they ease off, or how quickly a lot of the less-dicey-quarrels shut down instantly when there's a several-foot tall winged dinosaur with rocket-launcher tit-cannons towering over the summoner in question whose probably even easier to piss off than the summoner who called on them.

I'm sure there'll probably be other OCs who are equal amounts if not higher on the loud scale, but either they fall into the same category of 'you have to really work it out of them first' (not naturally all that loud) or they're still too undercooked to really dig into their hows and whys yet. 😂

[redtalics]

love how dogman is just a normal-ass guy 95% of the time and then 5% of the time he passionately spills out an UNGODLY amount of lore, story, and character personality that he did NOT need to give. this man is an admirer of his own work and i think that's pretty cool

[wikiipediabf]

this is what is feels like watching maxiel situationshipism happening on instagram in the year of our lord 2025

[quiddling]

AEMOND MENTIONED���️‼️‼️‼️

they dislike each other very muchly

[rsenak]

something something 'your coworker keeps mentioning there arent enough onions so you offer to get some the next time youre in a city. he tells you to get good ones but you realize too late that you have no idea whats the difference between a good and a bad onion'

this was a lot funnier in my mind before i spent 3 days working on it ._.

[solargeist]

for someone with no knowledge of evo but who really wants to get into it, whos POV would you personally recommend?

Grian created the series, so I think his is the best to really get a grasp on the concept and story ! I’ve watched his pov twice now, and I keep thinking abt it so it might be time for another rewatch haha

Taurtis’ pov is very short with only 6 episodes, but they’re sparse and focus primarily on his own lore rather than the whole server. They are great though when you’re familiar with Evo itself

I’ve only seen a handful of episodes from Martyn inthelittlewood, but I know his lore and stuff continues past Grian and past Evo itself. You’ll get the Listeners from him and Jimmy

I’ve also seen some of BigB’s and his pov is fun and good vibes.

The series itself is great if you’re an old school minecraft player, it’s a lot of nostalgia

[kindrehd]

aventurine doodle page 🦚