#The dark city tag

[talvenhenki]

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I know I've talked about him a lot on Discord but here's an intro to my boy Luca with an image of him!

[Id: an ink drawing of a young boy with short and curly black hair. He is eyeing something at his left suspiciously, one eyebrow raised. He looks displeased. He is wearing an unbuttoned dress shirt that is too big for him, and underneath he has an unspecified top. Next to him, words "Luca 15yo". End id.]

So, my darling boy Luca. He's the youngest of 3 siblings: Tiago, Susana, and Luca. His family is an old line of shipmakers from the eastern shores of Verduena but neither Luca nor his older siblings have a particular skill for building ships. Tiago, Luca's older brother, is fifteen years older than Luca while Susana, the sister, is 10 years older. Before having Luca, his parents had tried for a child a few times but lost the baby not too far into the pregnancy. Luca was a happy surprise to the whole family, although Susana was very confused about the baby.

Luca had a happy childhood. He was often doted on and there were no expectations on him the same way that his siblings had. Sometimes Luca found himself hearing fights between Tiago and their father about how Tiago was supposed to continue the tradition of shipbuilding in the family. Usually, after those fights, Luca asked Tiago to tell him stories - that's how Luca learnt all the stories of different gods and spirits that helped the world go round.

Every winter, Luca's family boards sea nomads. The ship Goa returns like clockwork and her eldest, Mielzik, stays in the house with some of the nomads while the others stay with other villagers of Reurachna. Having lived decades, Mielzik knows a lot about the world and she would often tell stories of different countries, of their religions, of their cultures, of their languages. That was how Luca and his siblings found their passions; Tiago with religions, Susana with politics, and Luca with languages.

On the spring of Luca's tenth birthday, Tiago ran away as Goa left the shores of Reurachna. Come winter, Mielzik returned with the news of Tiago's passing on the sea. The news broke something in Luca - he had always looked up to the rebellious and kind-hearted older brother that Tiago was. This was the only time that Luca took part in building a ship of any kind. With his father, Luca built a traditional funeral boat that was filled with mementos of Tiago and sent to the sea. Unlike the funerals of north, coastal Verduena tends to let the boats to simply drift past the horizon along with the memory of the deceased.

Five years later, Luca ran away too. His sister had become a politician in the capital of Verduena and he'd made an excuse of visiting her while in reality, he joined a caravan of travelling merchants headed for Olyad, the city where the gods of creation were worshipped. There, he planned to buy a map of the world so he could begin his journey of studying languages and learning how the world around him was shaped. The world, however, turned out to be quite the fickle place, and Luca found himself in an adventure before he even got the map.

Later, Luca made his way north to study the Northern Creole and other languages from the Reyd area. There he, much to his shock, finds out that Tiago was not dead - he had been saved by another nomadic ship and taken to the archipelago of Fallen Stars. While on another adventure, the brothers reconnect, but a small seed of fear remains in Luca's chest. This causes Luca to act rashly and nearly lose his life in the process. It is only then that Tiago understands what his disappearance did to Luca. Luckily, a soul bird is sent from the heavens to make sure that Luca remains alive. Thus begins Luca's journey of healing, once the brothers return home.

Luca is a curious soul, but sometimes he finds himself terribly sad out of nowhere. It takes him some time to learn to trust new people, especially those who are as bright-eyed as Luca's brother once was. Having travelled the world often on foot, Luca is a good hiker, but not very agile. He has a decent grasp on geography and orienting himself in a pinch, but he prefers travelling by the road.

Once, during a rather surprising meeting with a dwarven family, Luca admits that he is self-conscious over the lack of beard he's experiencing (he is 25 at the time) and the dwarven father gifts him some small gemstones that should hasten the growth of Luca's beard. A month or so in, it turns out that the stones really do work :---D

[velvetwyrme]

MORE TITAN AU!!! of the cityspeaker rodimus variety <3

extra context for these:

this is inspired by the concept of the city/internals of Megatron changing colour in response to heat- something Rodimus has plenty of! (as mentioned in asks here and here)

in this AU Megatron rarely speaks to/acknowledges his cityspeakers, so Rodimus is trying to get a rise out of him the entire time :]

majority of the dialogue is by @callsign-relic whos blog this au lives on! the first section of dialogue is from one of the first titan au posts :]

check out the #titan au tag over on Relic's blog for more Thoughts about this au and its many offshoots!!

[d8tl55c]

[katabay]

original thief series basso & garrett :)

ngl, it's about quality over quantity for me. an npc can have a total of three minutes of screen time, but if they have a cool name, they can live rent free in my head and I'll spend several hours trying to decipher drawable features from a blurry screenshot of pixels

there is a vague hint of a story here, and that's because every time I try to play thi4f, I get incredibly frustrated with how Not Fun the game play is. like, is the story good? well. but it has a PLAGUE. that should've given it instant 'I'll replay this once a year' status in my heart, but the game play sucks so bad that I've never finished it. I can't believe Not Fun gameplay beat out my obsession with narrative plagues.

anyway, the idea is basically if the original era had a game with a plague centric narrative and some other stuff I liked out of thi4f thrown into a narrative blender, with a heavy dash of horror thrown in because some parts of the thief games were scarier to me than entire dedicated horror genre games.

⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app

[cata-strophes]

sorry im not drawing much but much but here, i did this months ago for an event :) (it was supposed to have an angel duo prequel but i never did it sorry 🧍‍♂️)

[sea-jello]

hong kong miku,,,

[imeriayapping]

The fallen idol

[tongues--and--teeth]

Post-War Golden Cheese and Dark Cacao my beloveds <3

[killjoy-prince]

Saw a shirt I wanted to draw him in

[thee-wild-child]

Old city aesthetics! ✨

Walled city of Lahore

[soupmanspeaks]

You know what

In celebration of a common CC W

Here's some rare Soup art of the boy

[astyr-art]

i have once again jumped to a new fandom LMAO ya bois gettin into BATMAN. i bought the arkham trilogy on steam a lil while ago when they were on sale, and i also bought a couple of comics. but so far ive only played through asylum and only read year one cuz ive been too busy just stalking the batman tag on here LOL

ANYWAY this is my attempt at figuring out how i wanna draw bruce. tbh im not 100% sold on how ive drawn his face but i do think this is how ill be drawing the suit! i wanted to put my own spin on it while still taking inspo from official designs and i like where i landed here (ovo)b

[i3utterflyeffect]

thinking abt untitled, chosen, and dark again. it will never not be funny to me

[h0bg0blin-meat]

Dark academia but it's students in ancient India studying in an International UNI (inspo eg- Nalanda, Takshashila etc.)

[corporatecoinings]

Greennightscapeaesic

A gender related to the aesthetic and/or vibe of green cities, metropolises, cityscapes, landscapes, etc. or any kind of photography that involves modern structure, sometimes that is foggy, and is set to be at night / dark setting that is themed to be green. It is also similar to the kind of aesthetic/vibe you see on dark ambient music covers. It can range from darker green colors to neon green colors. It may feel dystopian, lonely; but comforting, and weirdly calming, or serene.

Highly specific gender for me (Syntax) because the images and whole aesthetic is really gender, please tell me yall see the vision

But that was the worst description we could give for a gender so here are some picture examples to help yall get a feeling for what we’re talking about (1st and 2nd one especially!)

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Banner 1 and Banner 2

[acourtofquestions]

Overhead, the stars shone clear and bright, and though Mala had only once appeared to him at dawn, on the foothills across this very city, though she might be little more than a strange, mighty being from another world, he offered up a prayer anyway.

Then, he had begged Mala to protect Aelin from Maeve when they entered Doranelle, to give her strength and guidance, and to let her walk out alive. Then, he had begged Mala to let him remain with Aelin, the woman he loved. The goddess had been little more than a sunbeam in the rising dawn, and yet he had felt her smile at him.

Tonight, with only the cold fire of the stars for company, he begged her once more.

A curl of wind sent his prayer drifting to those stars, to the waxing moon silvering the camp, the river, the mountains.

He had killed his way across the world; he had gone to war and back more times than he cared to remember. And despite it all, despite the rage and despair and ice he'd wrapped around his heart, he'd still found Aelin. Every horizon he'd gazed toward, unable and unwilling to rest during those centuries, every mountain and ocean he'd seen and wondered what lay beyond... It had been her. It had been Aelin, the silent call of the mating bond driving him, even when he could not feel it.

They'd walked this dark path together back to the light. He would not let the road end here.