#The Brotherhood of Guardians

[tired-old-men]

Lore

The Brotherhood of Guardians, protectors of Angel Island, overseers to the Master Emerald. A legacy of an echidna family devoted to protecting echidna civilization for generations. A secretive group residing in their headquarters, Haven, hidden in the Forbidden Zone. Their lives have been quiet for the most part, with The Dark Legion residing in the Twilight Zone, and the current Guardian Knuckles stationed in a secluded area of Angel Island; Watching over and protecting the Master Emerald, as his ancestors work from behind the scenes. 

All has been going accordingly ordinary until the Guardians encountered a strange intruder in the impenetrable Forbidden Zone. They found a rather confused teal hedgehog hybrid named Iris, who has some very unusual abilities of which they have limited knowledge on. While initially seeing this as a great threat, the Brotherhood was surprised to discover not only was this hedgehog no threat but rather an admirer of The Guardians and the history behind the Floating Island. A Lore of which Iris had long forgotten about and had even been convinced that the Guardians themselves had ceased to exist. When asked what the hedgehog wanted from the Brotherhood, Iris’s only request was to dedicate themself in service to the Guardians personally. 

While hesitant about the concept, it was ultimately the oldest member Hawking who found an interest in them, allowing this hedgehog to stay; if anything to keep an eye over their strange abilities as well as an opportunity to give these old men some much-needed companionship. 

Needless to say, Iris has thrown the Guardians for a loop in the few months they have been residing with them. The Guardians tend to have quite solitary and secretive lives for the most part, distancing themselves from most of society besides their duties to the Island. Having this foreign occupant around has been quite the adjustment for these tired old men, although they’ve grown to find it a rather pleasant change for once. The only caveat to their arrangement comes in the form of Iris’s strange assortment of friends, which they’ve surprisingly made through their interdimensional zone travels. 

As the goofy little hedgehog tends to find a friend in any place they go, their friends tend to find a way back to them in return. Leaving much room for The Brotherhood of Guardians to get tied up in the hedgehog’s wacky little adventures. 

[robotnik-mun]

You know what’s something I wish that had come up in Archie Sonic?

A Guardian Gone Bad.

Knuckles turning into Enerjak doesn’t count given that he was tricked into that and essentially possessed by an outside force. I mean that somewhere in the Guardian line, there was a Guardian who was straight up evil- someone who became corrupted by the power and prestige of their position, or one who came to sympathize with the viewpoint of the Legion over his own family.

It’s a thought that fascinates me, though I am forced to acknowledge it basically could not happen in the book. Penders very thoroughly documented the entire Guardian line up to the time of Knuckles, and doesn’t offer anything to suggest that any of the past Guardians were anything but heroic, nor was there any kind of wiggle room to insert a Guardian Gone Bad by the time Flynn came on board. Likewise, while we can see how terrible and flawed the whole Guardian thing was, Penders himself could never bring himself to see them as anything but ultimately heroic.

I wonder about it not just because it’s an interesting, untapped source of story potential within the book, but because of Penders himself. See, Penders is pretty blatantly a Superman fan, and I honestly think one of the things that influenced his hyper emphasis on the story of Knuckles’ family history is because there were a series of stories covering Superman’s own family history and how they influenced the development of Krypton before it’s destruction, before Crisis on Infinite Earth’s rewrote everything. 

Of course, Penders being Penders, he seemingly missed the parts that emphasized that while Clark was certainly a noble individual, as was his biological father Jor-El, that didn’t mean he came from an unbroken line of heroic people. Many of his ancestors, such as the ones who founded the House of El, were warlords and conquerors, and even by the time of his father the family had malcontents (Jor-El had an evil cousin named Kru-El who was banished to the Phantom Zone. Gotta love comics).

It’s one of those many weird, dissonant things about the guy and the things that influenced his work on Knuckles, especially given his rather blatant desperation to be seen as a ‘mature’ writer who wasn’t afraid to write about complicated subjects in a kid’s book. Yet somehow this very obvious potential plot point, one that was brought up in his own beloved Superman, escaped him utterly.

Ah well. I still like to imagine it, all the same, the notion of an Evil Guardian. What could have been, eh?

[unmask-strange-aeons]

I present to you

Kermit may be the Muppet Joker or regular Kermit, or the muppet joker may be a secret identity or second persona of Strange Aeons.

[marveltournaments]

[mayonnaise-sock]

Euthanise me i was so distraught i went on character ai and told kenny i was so sorry that no one ever remembers when he dies and then i may or may not have made a club with a bunch of dead-not-dead characters to be friends and hang out. Please don’t judge me i’m just a little guy… i played telephone between eight different AIs for an hour inviting each to the dead kid club. I need help. Maybe. On the bright side i will be probably drawing shitty stupid art about dead-not-dead characters such as danny fenton, kenny mccormick, jack frost, alphonse elric, atom, lars steven universe, evan afton, and maybe meliodas if i feel like it.

All because i was distraught over how no one remembers kenny dies and i thought he needed people who get it. God this’s like how i used to sob at 2am over portgas d ace

[echidna-enquiries]

Chikki: YO SETH! Rate these old fools fits will ya?

They need someone with taste to teach them some fashion sense -chuckles-

Fae: GUYS HE'S TRYING TO TAKE TO MY PHONE HE'S TAKING MY PHONE-H'ESS HGHG HZH EQ SD-

Seth: YOU WILL GET MY ANSWER. I'M HIJACKING THIS SHIT. THIS IS GONNA BE ANOTHER WHOLE POST MOTHERFUCKERS.

[btm-txt]

The Four Baby Gurls of the Apocalypse~💖✨

Just some sketch studies of the boys but with their spines up that I later decided to baby girlify because its just too cute not to~ UwU

[mightyray]

Suggestion for @itsasooz I did a long while ago. Please visit her, her art is amazing!

[fyeahsonicthehedgehog]

echidna

[julie-su]

Sojourner: ... REALLY, truly? Locke: Yes. Really, truly. Shut up.

[queer-eggman]

Artfight coming up so uh 😃 pls zoom in on the album covers I drew them myself

(Also who else preordered sonadow generations for the Gerald Robotnik art book I sure did)

[tired-old-men]

🏳️‍🌈Happy Pride!♥🏳️‍⚧️

[charleecat-bat]

Tbh I find it funny how most people who are still (for whatever reason) interested in the mess that is the brotherhood of guardians we all have one select thing we all tend to do.

Throw the fire ants concept in the trash LOL

[unmask-strange-aeons]

You all cannot imagine my dashboard rn... it's a combination of the muppetsaga, strange aeons and the big 4 and honestly... can we make this a fandom crossover. Like the vibes this is giving... it's so good.

New side quest unlocked.

[assorted-fics]

Fics of the Week

Avatar: The Last Airbender

a nation, held by snowdarkred

It doesn’t take long for the rumors to start.

The Fire Nation prides itself on its civilization. It isn’t like the other, lesser, nations who throw their children away by sending them into war. Those uncultured and unfeeling savages who are destroying their own future faster than the Fire Nation can save them from themselves.

Every Fire Nation child goes to school. They learn reading and writing, the illustrious history of their country, and what will be expected of them as proper, upstanding Fire Nation citizens. They are to be protected, because children are the future glory of the nation.

The crown prince is thirteen when his father burns his face in front of an audience of hundreds.

All The Gentle Creatures by Haicrescendo

It’s said that you can tell a lot about a person by how they treat animals. Zuko may be loud and stubborn and sharp but all the woodland creatures love him.

The Good Vanilla by Haicrescendo

Sokka’s beautiful friendship with Zuko doesn’t start with breaking Dad out of jail. That’s just what he tells people.

Sokka’s beautiful friendship with Zuko started the day he realizes that he knows how to cook.

Feat. breakup cake, an attempted assassination, and eating out of the pan like dirty heathens.

Merlin

From the Start by CrzyFun

"You... assisted me in my fight against the bandits. For that, you have my thanks. I'm an honorable man and I repay my debts. Leave now and I will not hunt you."

"Assisted? I'm pretty sure I saved your life."

"I had the situation perfec- Are you trying to make me reconsider letting you go?"

It was supposed to be a one time thing. Arthur let the sorcerer run off with his life in return for him saving Arthur's. He had never expected to see the boy again, especially not only two days later in Gaius's chambers.

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

non native ceramics by silentwalrus

Ed opens up the catacombs on the first of September, clapping his hands and then watching the stones part like the swish of a theater curtain, pouring over each other to reveal the dark, blocky tunnels beneath.

An Interesting Trip by ShanaStoryteller

Everyone's born with their soulmate's first words to them written on their skin, and that should make things easy, but it really doesn't.

"Roy has alternatively despised his mark and clung to it like a lifeline. Colonel. Just one word, right at the back of his foot. His literal Achilles’ heel."

Spider-Man

of things unknown (but still longed for) by aloneintherain

Peter Parker can’t walk around with the same daemon as Spider-Man. But she’s going to settle one day, and there’s nothing he can do about it.

Guardians of the Galaxy

Silence is Golden by GloriousBlackout

Peter doesn't say a word during his first six months with the Ravagers. Yondu learns to adapt to having a silent shadow following him around.

Ain’t No Mountain High Enough by BeanieBaby

I kept him ‘cause he’s small and fits into spaces others can’t. Good for thievin'.

Harry Potter

Spider in the Roses by HauntingOpal

When Pansy Parkinson, Tracey Davis, and Daphne Greengrass start 4th year, they expect a silly tournament and more study time. Instead they get an abused Harry Potter who isn't a Potter at all, a mother who wants her son back, and a Slytherin Triwizard competitor who owes a debt to Harry Potter. Not to mention a twinkly eyed headmaster whose careful plans are being torn to shreds by very protective Slytherins.

House Proud by atolat

His house liked Draco Malfoy more than him.

All the Little Things by MyWhiteKnight

Oliver just wanted to beat the Slytherin in the House Cup this year, and find a good seeker to replace his friend and mentor, Charlie Weasley. Instead, he found the beginnings of an unbreakable bond between himself and one curly-haired witch.

What started as helping a lonely first year gain her bearings in a new world evolved into having their own analyst for Gryffindor. As time goes on, life develops in a way he never saw coming.

Series: we must unite inside her walls or we'll crumble from within by dirgewithoutmusic

stories for the ladies of hogwarts, who cry, waver, giggle, trespass, and who deserve our respect all the same

First Fic: overemotional: in defence of cho chang

Cho cried and she survived Pansy Parkinson's cruel jabs about a dead boy. She wept and she passed all her classes, kept up with Quidditch, watched fairweather friends scatter in the cold wind. She got very good at wordlessly summoning tissues and she joined the DA against her parents' wishes.

They had told her to behave, begged her, ordered her, as the threatening darknesses of the world clung close even inside Hogwarts, and Cho walked out to the little pub in Hogsmeade and wrote her name down on Hermione's list.

I hope someone in the DA told Cho that she ought to have been in Gryffindor.

I hope she laughed at them, hard.

Integrity. Truth. Honor. Dedication. These were the tenets of her House, of the blue and the bronze, the eagle called raven (called nerd, called stuck-up, called so many things that were not their names). Bravery was only one way to be a hero.

[siegeofthedork]

Hey! Hey! I did a thing!!

My weekly regulars have been updated! A little late in the day simply because I have had a hell of a week with many unexpected things happening! Catch the new chappies here! Requests are open for these guys, or other things you may want to see!