#aeos

[imperfectercell]

Finally finished this poster parody sketch I did forever ago!

[amelheth]

Imma gonna hate tagging this...

ENLARGED SIZE CHART OF FAVE CHARACTERS

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Took a shot at my own look for an Aeos Bunny Suit

[discover-underground-bands]

shameless self promo - I make electronic and experimental music! here is a bandcamp link .

[mikaseidukas]

Some more sketches of Aeos, trying some dynamic poses and understanding the design more :>

[duhragonball]

Super Dragon Ball Heroes Episode 50

The finale of the Supreme Kai of Time arc finally came out a few weeks ago, so let's wrap up my liveblog of it.

Just so we're all up to speed, I covered Episodes 41 through 49 here , here, and here. But if you're not in the mood to read that: this arc introduces Aeos, the previous Supreme Kai of Time, who has now returned to take back the position from Chronoa. Aeos believes that there are too many alternate timelines now, and Chronoa's refusal to deal with them has only made things worse, so Aeos and her four attendants take over the Time Nest to resolve the problem instead. Aeos's solution is to hold a big tournament with warriors from different timelines, and the losing teams get their timeline erased.

This all gets thrown into chaos when Demigra shows up, having recently gained a power boost from the Dark King energy once held by Fu. I'm not sure if this was just a coincidence, or if Demigra somehow manipulated the Aeos/Chronoa dispute to his advantage. Anyway, he tries to seize control of the Time Nest and destroy all the fighters who oppose him, which culminates in this climactic beam struggle against Goku, Bardock, and Future Gohan.

Just so we're clear, the Bardock and Future Gohan we see here are variants from other timelines, recruited by Aeos to serve as her attendants. Bardock was the "Hooded Saiyan" who occasionally helped Goku during the previous arc. Gohan hails from a world where Trunks died fighting 17 and 18, while he survived.

Anyway, the Father-Son-Grandson Kamehameha ends with Bardock daring the boys to push even harder, which leads to Bardock turning SSJ4, Goku going Ultra Instinct (again), and Gohan turning SSJ2. This overwhelms Demigra and he dies.

However, before Demigra is beaten, Aeos and Chronoa have this nice little reconciliation where Aeos points out that Demigra only got this far because of the multitude of alternate timelines. Even if he's defeated, some other menace will just rise up to replace him. She asks Chronoa how she can continue to support sparing the timelines if this is true, and Chronoa replies that a lot of good has come from the alternate timelines as well, and she's willing to trust the heroes to rise to the occasion. Then they hold hands and do some sort of time stuff, which might have helped tip the scales against Demigra, but I don't know. When it's all over, they use the Scroll of Eternity to restore everything to the way it was before Demigra attacked.

Goku is satisfied with this outcome, but he has one last bit of business to discuss with Aeos: Goku wants the Super Space-Time Tournament to be restarted, since he never got to finish his match with Xeno Goku earlier in the arc. Aeos agrees, and this time it's just an exhibition, with the fighters who still want to fight having 1v1 matches with no brackets.

We get some brief glimpses of the other matches, like Piccolo vs. Pikkon, Master Roshi vs. Grandpa Gohan, and so on, but none of these amount to anything. This episode spent a decent two minutes re-telling the beam struggle from Episode 49, which could have been used to show a little more of the cool fights they teased instead.

Credit where it's due, Goku vs. Xeno Goku actually gets some time, and there's some cool spots, like SSJ4 Goku trying to use a Warp Kamehameha on UI Goku, only for UI to try to float over to avoid it. Then 4ku snares him with his tail, but UI-ku is still too nimble to be trapped for long.

As everyone watches, Aoes reflects on how Goku impressed her, and I think the implication is that Goku's the one who convinced her not to erase the other timelines, at least for the time being. Then there's a credits sequence, like this is a big finale, but it's not.

They do the finish of the Goku/Vegeta fight from DBS: Super Hero, and it's UI Goku who wins. Sound booking, but I wish they could have come up with a different way to end it. I mean, Aeos's tournament was already a rip-off of the Tournament of Power, and Demigra's invasion was just a retread of his invasion in Xenoverse 1, and now this. It's tough to find anything really fresh in this story.

With the match settled, Aeos announces that she'll be leaving again to survey the alternate timelines for herself. She says she wants to re-check everything to re-evaluate her decision, and warns Chronoa that if she finds she had it right the first time, she'll be back to erase everything like she intended. Chronoa seems to accept this. Maybe she's confident that Aeos will see things her way, or maybe it's just that Chronoa has no choice. This arc suggests that Chronoa cannot, or will not, challenge Aeos' authority. I guess with Aeos leaving, Chronoa is reinstated as Supreme Kai of Time, but they never explained why Aeos left the job in the first place, or what claim she had to take it back. There's a lot of unanswered questions in all of this.

Aeos's four attendants will be joining her on her new mission, including Vidros, who proposed to Yamcha during the tournament. So what about that? Well, it turns out Vidros can't marry Yamcha right away. Her people have a tradition that says she can't marry until she reaches a certain age, which is still a dozen centuries away. So she intends to go with Aeos and return for Yamcha 1200 years from now. D'oh!

This did not go over well with the fandom, who were pretty hyped for the idea of Yamcha getting the girl. I think we all knew that there'd be some kind of catch. They weren't going to marry off an established character in a web series for crying out loud. I choose to look at this in a positive light. Yamcha's still got a fiance. And just because she has to wait 1200 years doesn't mean that he has to wait the same amount of time. Aeos might do her a solid and bring her back to the present day so she can still marry Yamcha during his natural lifespan.

At least Vidros had some sort of character arc in this story. I have no idea what this alternate version of Piccolo was supposed to be about. He just shares some meaningful looks with Gohan and that's it. Future Gohan says goodbye to Xeno Trunks, Bardock takes a last look at his son, and they all head out.

I seriously wondered if Episode 50 was going to be the finale for the entire web-series, since this arc seemed to wrap up the last plot threads of the whole show. Most of SDBH was about Fu's rise to prominence, and then he got defeated with the help of Demigra and Aeos's team, who settled all of their business in this arc. So this seemed like a pretty good stopping point, but no. There's an Episode 51, which promises a whole new arc that will probably take another two years to finish. I guess Super Dragon Ball Heroes will be around for a while longer.

And I'll probably cover those future story arcs one of these days, but this seems like a good place to stop for now. It's a lot more satisfying to watch this show several episodes at a time, and it'll be at least a year before we're far enough along to make this worth my time. But we'll see how it goes.

[red-shirt-guy]

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[doctorofmagic]

Stephen suffered A LOT in this story (as usual) but at least he was hugged so I see this as a win.

Rest, beloved. You earned it (and fuck you Sophia!!)

Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise #4 (2023)

[dhampyr-darling]

Was trying to make another Fall Sunrise cover and i ended up not liking this while i was inking so i decided that maybe slapping some color mid way would help. It didn't really but i worked too hard and long on it to just delete so have this silly wip. I liked her face the most out of it all.

Anyways, i love Yalda!!! 💖💖💖

[comicwaren]

From Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise #004, “Shape and Nothing More”

Art by Tradd Moore and Heather Moore

Written by Tradd Moore

[snowboyclarkov]

Parody Death Battle Match-Ups - 2

Some point ago, I made various templates of battles I want to see made one day. They included a Beyblade Main Antagonist Battle Royale, Luka vs Byakuren Hijiri, Origami Tobiichi vs. Rashad Goodman vs. The Darkest Lord and Gwyn Reynolds vs. Lisa Loud among others.

This one is my next addition to that list. A battle between rulers and keepers of time. Imagine a scenario if you will.

I also came up with an ice-themed battle, which comes at next to no surprise given that ice, and the cold in general, is my entire thing. There's a reason I'm named "Snow Boy Clarkov" on this site.

Match-up 1:

Faust/Tempo - Metal Fight Beyblade

Sakuya Izayoi - Touhou Project

Aeos - Dragon Ball

Vector Prime - Transformers

Match-up 2:

Zane - Ninjago

Yuki-Onna - Monster Girl Encyclopedia

Lui Shirosagi - Beyblade Burst

Flurious - Power Rangers

Mizore Shirayuki - Rosario + Vampire

Fuusuke Suzuno - Inazuma Eleven

[kaioshinangel1]

Aeos Sama

[roro73290]

Some Dragon Ball Heroes characters i made on Gacha.

[mikaseidukas]

One of the cooler designs from Super Dragon Ball Heroes I still like! Maybe I should do more pose studies with Aeos again :D

[duhragonball]

Super Dragon Ball Heroes 44-46

It... kind of isn’t, really.

All right, so this is the second round of the Super Space-Time tournament.  The figthers are all off in different battlegrounds, each fighting one of Aeos’ four warriors to win a fairy which they’ll bring to Aeos to claim victory.  I think that’s how this works.  I’m not sure if the first one to bring Aeos a fairy is the winner, or if it’s whoever brings the most.  I guess it doesn’t matter much.  Anyway, Goku’s on what looks like Earth, facing his father, Bardock.  Goku doesn’t know Bardock, but Bardock knows him.  Like Future Gohan, his powers were amplified by the Dark Dragon Balls when he entered into Aeos’ service.  I guess this is the same guy who kept getting involved during the New Space-Time War arc.  He didn’t have the Bardock headband like he does now, but unless Aeos has a fifth henchman, I don’t see who else it could be. 

Meanwhile, Bardock’s comrade, Vidro, is fighting contestants on a different battleground.  She can create clones of herself and fight multiple opponents at once.  What I don’t understand is what happened to all of the other fighters.  She’s taking on Yamcha, Hit, and Vegeta at the same time, but there were guys from two other teams involved here.  Those two teams don’t seem to have anyone at the place where Goku and Bardock are fighting.

Anyway, Hit manages to get the drop on what I assume to be the ‘real’ Vidro, but then someone stops him before he can finish her off. 

It’s Yamcha, and he tells Hit that he can’t just let Hit kill her, even if she is an enemy.  I mean, yeah, there was no rule that said he had to murder Aeos’ warriors.  He just needed to take the fairy from her, so I don’t get what Hit is doing.  Hit seems insistent, though, so he concludes that he’ll have to kill Yamcha first. 

This display from Yamcha has deeply touched Vidro, though, so she jumps to Yamcha’s defense.

Even her clone is confused.

Meanwhile, Bardock and Goku father-son beam struggle blah blah blah get back to Yamcha I want to see if he marries this lady!

Seriously, though, Bardock loses, but he doesn’t mind because if a fellow “low-class” Saiyan can improve this much on his own, then there’s hope for Bardock to do the same.

Meanwhile, Chronoa confronts Aeos while disguised as one of the competitors.  The Time Patrollers had their own team in this tournament, and Chronoa infiltrated the tourney that way, probably so she could get close to Aeos on her own, since that’s the objective of the second round. She wants the Scroll of Eternity back, but nothing’s changed.  Aeos tells her to take it by force if she thinks she can.

Then they power up to their super forms.  Aeos goes first, expecting a fight, but Chronoa says she’ll only use this form to talk. 

But Aeos sees this as pointless, as her mind is made up.  Okay, the problem I have with this show is that they never explain anything past a superficial level.  Aeos is the former Supreme Kai of Time, and now she’s come back because she believes Chronoa, her successor, has failed in her duties and allowed too many timelines to exist.  Okay, fine, but why did Aeos step down from the office in the first place?  Where has she been all this time, and why did she choose to come back now?  And what gives her the right to just waltz back into her old job and take over?  Does Chronoa have no authority in this?  If she doesn’t, then what good is her title?

They struggle for a bit, and Chronoa concedes that all the timelines are a problem, but recent events have shown her that there are great possibilities in some of these timelines, and they’ve helped her overcome all the threats that have shown up in this web-anime.  Wait, have they?  Goku and Vegeta have handled the bulk of the work, and while there are two sets of them running around, that means you really only need two timelines, tops.  Maybe a third, depending on how Trunks’ whole deal is. 

I mean, from the layout of this tournament, Hearts and Cumber are from a separate timeline, since they were on a different team.  And they may have helped out in the previous arc, but they were also villains.  Seems to me that all these alternate timelines are usually the cause of the problems in this show, not the solution.

Anyway, Aeos overpowers Chronoa and gets ready to time-freeze her, when Goku shows up to turn in his fairy and claim victory.

He also wants to ask Aeos to not erase all the timelines where the losing teams came from. Well, we’ve been over this, but Aeos refuses to budge.  So now Goku has to do something about this.

So now we’re doing Goku vs. Aeos, and he uses his Ultra Instinct speed to stay one step ahead of her time altering powers.  She can’t time-freeze him if she can’t hit him with it.

But Aeos is pretty sharp, and she sets Goku up in a Hellzone Grenade situation.  But Goku knows a counter to that, a move that’s near and dear to my heart...

Instant Transmission Kamehameha!  Ha ha ha!  Get Goku’ed, idiot!

This doesn’t defeat Aeos, but it does disrupt her time field over this area, which... I don’t know what that means.  She then decides that the alternate timelines are much graver threat than she realized, if they can produced fighters like Goku.

Meanwhile, back at the site of the Universe Tree, we find Mechikabura’s... ghost?  Essence?  I assume this is a manifestation of the “Dark Factor” that he released when Trunks killed him in Episode 20.  Towa collected this energy and bequeathed it to Fu, who then lost to Goku.  We still don’t know what became of Fu, but apparently the power he got from the Dark Factor is still lingering here, cursing Mechikabura’s enemies.

Then Demigra shows up and attacks this Mechikabura ghost and claims the power for himself.  Okay...

Then  Demigra attacks this tournament grounds Aeos has set up. 

Once Aeos sees Demigra, she realizes that he was the “premonition of evil from space-time”.  So I think the idea here is that she was worried that something bad would come from the alternate timelines, and she did all this to erase the alternate timelines and eliminate the problem, but now she sees that Demigra was the true threat all along?  All right...

She also calls him “Majin Demigra”.  I’ve noticed this a number of times in this series.  For some reason, a number of characters have referred to Demigra and his underlings as Majins, like it’s a synonym for “demon”, or a specific type of demon.  I don’t think that’s how it’s supposed to work, but it’s definitely not a translation issue.  I can hear the voice actors saying “Majin” plain as day, so I think the subtitles are just going along with it. 

So Demigra grabs the humidor where Aeos has been storing the Scroll of Eternity, and declares himself the new Dark King and the ruler of space-time.  So this is basically just like the story mode in Xenoverse 1, where he broke out of the Crack of Time, took over the Time Nest and absorbed Tokitoki. In the back of my mind, I’ve been trying to figure out if any of this material in SDBH can be worked into the Xenoverse continuity, but it’s really just telling the same story with different characters.  It’s still the Time Patrollers, main timeline Goku, Towa and Demigra.  The only difference is that all of these side characters keep showing up in the present, instead of the bad guys manipulating them in the past. 

The first thing Demigra does is summon a goofy version of Omega Shenron from the Scroll of Eternity, sort of like how Goku Black did it before, only this one is much sillier.  He looks like he fused with Demigra’s final form from the video games. 

Then Xeno Gogeta shows up, because he really wasn’t that far away, and he’s a Time Patroller with a hobby of clobbering Omega Shenron.  I’m not sure why he’s pink, though.

They basically go through all the spots from the original Gogeta 4 vs. Omega Shenron fight in GT.  Well, not the bit with the streamers.  It’s supposed to be a callback to GT, but ironically this fight is actually way, way better than GT.  Better animation, better colors, and Gogeta’s fusion doesn’t dissolve. 

Omega Shenron can’t even touch the guy, so Gogeta 4 polishes him off with a Big Bang Kamehameha like he should have done 26 years ago. 

Aeos finally grants that she has to work with Goku and Gogeta to beat Demigra, so it looks like everyone’s on the same page now. 

Meanwhile, Demigra’s right-hand woman, Robelu, is here to observe the battle, and she’s brought a plus-one to this event.  Who could her mysterious ally possibly be?  It’s Broly.  Let’s just get this out of the way, it’s fucking Broly again.