#What happened to Falst Erin

[notasouleater]

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[comicaurora]

Wait wait wait

If Ferin souls are closed to the elements, and Falst can use light magic, and the Light Dragon is the equal and opposite of the Void Dragon ...

Does that mean Erin's plan just got a huge spanner in its works ?

I'm sure Erin would have lots of thoughts on what just happened if he had seen it.

[sunset-sunbun]

I find it very interesting that we know everyone's past pretty well in Aurora Except Erin's.

Like we've been with Kendal since day one, same with alinua (kind of sort of) and she gave us some more context throughout the comic. Tess, Dainix, and Falst gave us a rundown in varying levels of explanation but either way they all give us a pretty good picture about what happened and why they are where they are and stuff. ...Except Erin. We know his father was an emissary and Tess was bought into his family. and that he went to the soul shaper monastery once and got sealed. we know he wanted to do more to help Tess and was also pretty fragile....but that's it. we don't know much about his past other than some titbits of knowledge here and there that give us the frame but not the full picture as to what happened. but we know s o m e t h i n g (s) happened. and honestly I cant wait to see what it is

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Erin: Every single odd number has an “E” in it.

Alinua: LISTEN-

Tynan: Not all of them. 30 and 50 aren’t spelled with the letter E in it…

Dainix: Father god

Tynan: …if you can split a number in half evenly, it’s even. 30 and 50 are odd.

Falst, unimpressed: 15+15=30, 25+25=30

Erin: 25+25=30? You sure about that??

Alinua: Lord have mercy….

Dainix: One, three, five, nine, and since everything else after that is a variant of these numbers, then all odds have the letter ‘E’.

Erin: YOU FORGOT SEVEN!!

Alinua: It keeps getting worse.

Erin: who failed yall?

Void Dragon, to Erin: What it’s like calculating the tip when you are gay and also super dumb and don’t know math.

Tynan: You whole ass forgot about eight - a number with an E and is pretty fucking even.

Erin: Why would 8 be brought up if it’s EVEN in a post about ODDS??????? The post said “every single ODD number has an ‘E’ in it” not “every single number with an ‘E’ is odd”. What the fuck.

Tess: Er, guys two is odd and doesn’t have an E. Just saying…

Erin: Did you deadass just try to tell me two is odd? I’m fucking crying throw the whole squad away.

Falst: The one thing I notice is that no matter how much you want to throw this squad away, you just can’t.

Tynan: Wait what about zero. That’s an odd number, no?

Erin: *Confused concern*

Kendal: Ok but hear me out, fifty and thirty make up for the fact they have no E by the way they are pronounced third-E fifth-E.

Erin: Bro, why do 30 and 50 matter THEY’RE FUCKING EVEN!

Vash: What the actual fuck is happening.

thanks for the request @wise-healer c:

[narnianvalkyrieofberk]

New year, new me! ... Or at least continuing to try and build a me I like progressively more and more. Today's step? Starting to kill the part of me that fears being cringe by posting my @comicaurora self insert OCs even tho they're super self indulgent and occasionally lore-breaking (sometime because I misread/misremembered something from the lore page; sometimes because I use them in RPs and I like watching Erin lose his shit over something that makes no sense to him :P )

One of my earlier ones. Metalcaste because y'know. Wanting to be a cool metal lady like Tess. Ended up making an AU of the og version because the og version leaves Zuurith immediately after being released from prison and ended up being @nogenderonlyvoid's self insert's bodyguard. I wrote a ficlet that involved Icarus turning down Shrike's offer to take them to breakfast their first full day outside of prison, but Icarus turned her down and left Zuurith all together instead. Of course eventually I started wondering what if she took Shrike up on her offer and that's when the second version happened.

Can you tell I have a thing for wind-fire-lightning as a tri-element combo? :P

Oh hey, this one cursed out Caliban to his face. And for once we didn't do a wind-fire-lighting combo! Progress! Expanding to new horizons! :P

This one was a wind mage until I remembered that younger races don't do elemental magic. So she ended up obsessed with lacrima instead. Frequently mistaken for a freshman his entire time at the academy. Great way for me to vent my frustrations over how people responded to my baby face in college! May or may not have a starmetal dagger in their boot.

I keep doing AUs of this one. OG version was "adopted" alongside Tess and had to hide her full-leopard form because Galen was scared of it. Then did a version where The Ruunasers only knew about the leopard form and kept her as a pet until Falst enters the mix. And more recent AU has been "Snowspot" running away from the Ruunasers shortly before Tess sparks and running into Falst and chilling with him. Ruunaser twins (Erin and @nogenderonlyvoid's oc) don't find Falst's shifter buddy is Snowspot until Petrichor

Ah yes, nothing makes a possessed elemental magus trust you more than slapping a sealing cuff and ropes on him while he's passed out from fending off a primordial void dragon! In the Junior Champion's defense, they were badly injured from the battle and wanted to make sure the Void Dragon couldn't run away with his vessel while she trying to clean and bandage her wounds. Wrote a ficlet for this one that takes place shortly after he loses his status and his arm. Got to project my obsession with looking at the moon at night.

Narni Chaosbringer who I definitely did not forget to add until after initially posting :P ^^"" God of "everything fun" or "everything chaotic and destructive" depending on if you ask them or Zuurith :P Has one (1) emissary who is also an elemental magus because I reeeaaaally wanted to fuck with Erin.

[reflection-s-of-stars]

The Least I Can Do

It is the birthday of @falst aka Scar aka Magnus aka a lovely person and great mutual so here is a fic! It’s set after the current arc finishes, and it’s just a little Alinua + Falst convo! I haven’t done one of these in a while so just bear with me <3

Being healed felt nice. Really nice.

This might’ve seemed obvious to anyone else, but it was new for Falst. He was rapidly realizing he’d never been properly healed before- lacrimal life magic was the closest, but it had felt strange, old and dry and vaguely disapproving. But Alinua’s healing magic felt fantastically sweet and new. The little tendrils of magic reaching into his wounds weren’t sucking Falst dry like before. They felt like being hugged, like being washed down with warm water.

Not that he needed it, of course. Alinua was just doing him a favor, like she always did after her friends got hurt.

“It’s the least I can do,” she kept saying. She liked repeating things, as if saying them over and over made them truer. That was also nice, though Falst couldn’t pinpoint exactly how.

She also liked to ask questions. That was less lovely, but he played along.

“What were the catacombs like?” “Dark.”

“Do you wanna talk about what happened?” “Not really.”

“What else do you wanna talk about?” “Dunno.”

Maybe he wasn’t playing along that well, but he was hurt. She could bear with him for a minute.

The sun was rising. The sky was beautiful this time of day. Alinua seemed to agree: the little life-tendrils were going a bit slower, and her eyes were wide, staring just above Falst’s head.

“They’re nice, right?” he offered as a conversation topic.

“Yeah,” she almost whispered. “I always like looking at them through the trees.”

“Not much else to do when you live in the woods.”

“I get that,” she laughed.

He cocked his head. “You lived in the woods?”

Alinua nodded, returning to the scratches on his arm. “Didn’t Erin tell you?”

“Oh yeah,” he offered, rather uselessly. Falst vaguely recalled the explanation given by Erin for Alinua’s weird abilities, but the technical terms eluded him, so he’d forgotten most of it. It had something to do with the Chimeric Plague, but the last he’d heard of that involved its sufferers barely making it to five years old, so who knew.

“How long were you…” he struggled for a word- “in there?”

“Living the green life?”

Falst snorted. “That’s a hell of a way to put it.”

“I like it,” Alinua giggled. “Ten years, by the way. What about you?”

He paused, counting on what few fingers he could use.

“Twelve,” he said, then thought better of it: “Twelve-ish. Maybe thirteen.”

“You win.”

“I guess.”

The sky was yellow by now. No, it was gold- not gold like Tess’s skin or like Kendal’s hair, but gold like Falst’s eyes. Gold like the cat’s eyes he got from his father.

Thirteen years.

“What day is it?”

It was Alinua’s turn to frown and count. “Fifteenth day of the eighth Sindahlan, why?”

“I think it’s my birthday tomorrow.”

Alinua didn’t say anything. She broke her magic from his arm. The absence felt slimy and cool, like touching a slug, but not unpleasant like Falst had anticipated.

The mage turned away from him. Her hair shook as she worked on something he couldn’t see. It was a little bit green and a little bit pink, a little bit glowy and a little bit sweet-smelling. When Alinua turned back around, she held a big red fruit in her hand.

“Happy birthday,” she said. “I couldn’t exactly wrap it, but I hope you like it.”

Falst didn’t know what to say. He hadn’t gotten a birthday gift in… well, in thirteen years. He took it from her hand. It was hard enough that his claws didn’t dig into the shell unless he applied pressure.

“You didn’t have to do that.”

“It’s the least-”

“Yeah, I get it,” he interrupted, but he couldn’t hide a smile. “It’s the least you could do.”

“Do I really say it that often?”

“Yep.”

[the-mountain-flower]

Spoilers for the webcomic Aurora page 1.22.50

Falst worried about Dainix

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A) This is badass

B) Their FACES

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Dainix: flamethrows the glort out of his lungs

Alinua: what the FUCK just happened

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Erin: Falst isn't dying, Dainix can breathe, NOW I can show off!

This is why we stan SickTats McHubris

[phoebastria-albatrus]

Anygays now that we've established that drawing with blood is fine and normal actually I think I should cover Falst and Dainix in blood next. I'd have to wait for a much bigger cut to happen though which would take a while, since I'm a rather careful person. Or Trusk's eyes are redish, right? hmmm Erin's turn red when he uses fire, but that's more orange. Or I continue with the running non-Aurora list. What do you think Divorce Lawyer.

divorce lawyer here. cover falst in blood

[themoonstonechronicler]

So if it is a paladin-

-Alinua has little to no space to grow plants, but she can still heal, if all of the ambient life energy hasn't been used up by Erin.

-Kendal can fight, but I'm not sure how useful starfire will be against a paladin.

-Dainix can't use soulfire because he's on a ship, but he can use a spear...yay?

-Tess can fight, but if she gets knocked overboard that would be very very bad. Metal skin, and she'd be electrocuting the water around her so it would be harder to save her. Also, she might not be able to fight without zapping everyone, if the fact that the ship is conductive comes back.

-This would be a good time for Falst to have his big light power reveal, so that might happen, but he's probably really inexperienced with it, and I don't think he would be a match for any paladin.

-Erin's fucked. If what Tess is saying is true, he will be completely out of comission for days after this, so he can't fight. Unless Voidy wants to make an appearance, though it wouldn't be very smart of Voidy to do that when Erin is so debilitated. Voidy showing up could further convince the paladins that Erin is working with him though, so that would have consequences.

tldr: it's not looking great folks!

Guys?

is that?..

is that a fucking paladin?

because if so these guys have gone from horrifically screwed to catastrophically screwed

[sodabread]

Erin [writing a wind missive]: I need a fireman, my cat is stuck in a tree…

Falst: I AM NOT STUCK

Dainix: Here to help!

Erin: Fireman not fire man—

Dainix [holds out arms]

Falst [pounces down]

Dainix [bridal carries Falst away]

Erin: ….well fine then

[falst]

KENDALS SELF DESTRUCTION HURTS EVERYONE AROUND HIM THE SELFISHNESS OF SELF SACRIFICE *SHAKES YOU*

[incorrect-comicaurora]

Falst: What the FUCK happened to you?!

Void!Erin: I HAD A CASE OF THE MONDAYS

Falst: ARE YOU HAUNTED?! ARE YOU FUCKING POSSESSED?!

Falst: YOU USED TO BE MY TEAMMATE

Void!Erin: ᴵ ᴴᴬᴰ ᴬ ᶜᴬˢᴱ ᴼᶠ ᵀᴴᴱ ᴹᴼᴺᴰᴬʸˢ

[comicaurora]

This is probably a weird question, but what are some tips you could give on character design? I've been trying to feel confident with my own designs, but they feel kind of bland... what kinds of things would you suggest to help make designs stand out more?

Hoo boy. Hm. I feel like I am not the right person to ask about this because objectively I do almost nothing you're "supposed" to, but if it's working I guess that means I might be onto something?

A lot of my design considerations are practical. I don't want to give anybody a design that's going to be a nightmare to draw over and over again. I've done enough commissions in my time to know when somebody is overdesigned and therefore hugely annoying to draw, and that's a no-no. So I tend to stick with simple patterns at most, not too many layers, no need for five million belts, no need for incredibly intricate hairstyles, etc. This is a practical consideration for the medium of comic art, but other mediums have different considerations - 3D-modeled art, for instance, can overdesign the characters as much as they want because they only need to model them once, and a lot of visual novel characters are limited to a very small handful of poses and some interchangeable expressions, meaning it isn't prohibitively complicated to make them a little Extra. The most time-consuming and frustrating commissions I've ever done were for characters who were frankly never designed to be drawn more than once. A quick sampling of highlights for the design features I swore to myself I would never deal with again-

So on a basic level, if you're designing a character to draw over and over again, it needs to be something you're willing and able to draw over again. Intricate patterns, a lot of interlocking plates, anything with lace - those are all things I try to avoid.

I've often seen the advice that character silhouettes should be super visually distinct, that characters should be very strongly shaped like different things. I think that's great if your style is that flexible, but if you kind of want everybody to be shaped like a human being with a skeleton, this advice is not very useful.

I think a diversity of body shapes is great, but the style I favor requires the anatomy to at least sort of makes sense, which means while there can still be a lot of variation in the distribution of muscle and fat, everyone's bones are gonna be in roughly the same place. I can't just draw a square and fill it with a dude. So instead I try and distinguish my character silhouettes in other ways.

Everyone's hair is different, and because most characters have big hair, this plays a large part in their silhouette. Falst and Erin both have short hair, but Falst's is a bristling mane while Erin's is usually more swept and soft-looking. Dainix and Kendal both have long hair, but even when Dainix's hair is loose it doesn't hang or flow the same way Kendal's does - it gets in the way, drapes in front of his face and overall doesn't move the same. Alinua's hair is bouncy curls. On top of that, everyone's outfits are fairly simple, but no two of them are exactly the same - Erin has a monopoly on poofy sleeves, Kendal has cuffed boots and the back-slung sword, Dainix has the poncho and the poofier pants, Alinua has the v-neck top with slightly pauldron-y shoulders and the slippers, Falst's clothing is ragged at the edges, etc. Even without getting into their distinct color palettes, everyone's at least a little bit distinct.

And this is another place where I purposefully try to avoid overdesigning. If everyone has too much going on it can circle around to being hard to tell the characters apart, because too much is happening. Who can pay attention to the fact that one character is sleeveless and one has asymmetrical boots and one has a mullet when everybody is wearing eight layers of embroidered fabric with four belts and half a breastplate on top?

Avoiding same-face is hard, and I'm not very good at it. But I do try to make sure everyone's face shape, nose and eyes are at least slightly different from everyone else's. It might not show from a distance and it might not be as extreme as a pixar design sheet, but it's something.

Ultimately the main consideration I keep in mind when designing characters is - perhaps a bit redundantly - their character. Who they are as people, and how that will impact the way they look. Everybody stands differently, and shifts their weight differently when a situation is changing.

Despite both being short, lightweight guys with short hair, Falst and Erin are wildly different people and are not going to dress the same, make the same facial expressions or hold themselves the same way. Despite both being tall, long-haired, generally friendly warrior badasses, Kendal and Dainix carry themselves very differently and react to things in very distinct ways. Tess and Erin have the exact same haircut and nobody noticed for ages because of everything else.

The designs aren't complicated, and compared to some, they aren't even that distinct. But I try to make sure that their personality is visible in every aspect of their design. Every "why?" in their design has an in-character answer, and since they're all quite different on the inside, keeping things simple means that starts showing through on the outside.

This is also how I can visually distinguish between Vash and Kendal, who have the exact same body and clothes.

we can never underestimate the importance of ✨body language✨

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Dainix: But what about Falst?

Erin: Don't worry about him.

Erin: I once watched him fall down 5 flights of stairs, stand up, and keep eating his hotdog like nothing happened.

[narnianvalkyrieofberk]

Boy howdy did I get extremely lucky a few days ago.

Be me, a bored adult at work with access to little more than a pen and a note book to entertain myself with between tasks

Starts writing Aurora fanfics at work because why not

Make a joke about making a Dainix/Falst arranged marriage ship fic

Realize Erin's position in canon makes him far more likely than Falst to be in an arranged marriage

Somehow end up deciding to make a fic where the canon lore has been beaten to bloody pulp and put in a blender with some random stock tropes and other things I enjoy just to see what happens also I decided Falst has two hands and all three of the bois are engaged now

It's barely started yet is somehow already my longest fic on AO3 (this is not a surprise, I write very short fics)

End up thinking "What if Erin/Falst/Dainix but omegaverse?"

Sit on that idea for a while

Go to work

Can't work on A Ferin, an Elemental Magus, and a Fiery Carrot Walk Into a Chapel because I'm stuck on a scene that I need to do some research to finish

Finally give in and start working on the fucking polyamourous mpreg omegaverse fic. AT WORK.

Thankfully, not the smut bits. But there are very clear references to omegaverse and the fact that there is an M who has been Pregged on the page

Keep notebook closed when around other people

Get hit with a bunch of work

Run around the building with my little wheeley-cart putting out metaphorical fires

Realize my notebook is missing

PANIK

Realize I can see it on the floor up ahead

KALM

Realize it's open on the floor and my manager is about 10 feet away

PANIK!!!!!

Thankfully, grab notebook before anybody else notices it and quickly stash it away where this won't happen again as I finish up putting out fires

Do my usual tear the page out and stuff it in my pocket to smuggle it home at the end of the day so I can transcribe it onto my computer later

[anaurorafanblog]

#whispers#aurora comic#While I'd love to pretend this is me back on my typical bullshit#I am le fucking terrified. Harrowed#Fix what Erin#What happened to Falst Erin#Does he have void in him Erin can you actually fix it stop making these expressions I am WORRIED#How have you managed to make me unable to even be like ah worry for friends WHAT IS HAPPENING#WILL HE BE OKAY#ANSWER ME MAN#man if hes hunger void corrupted Falst is gonna be pissed

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