#and some new additions.

[spoocys-glade-of-dreams]

Rayman Character Lore: Murfy

- Author’s note: I love this little sassy snarky greenbottle. One of my favorite Rayman characters. For my stuff in particular I use the Rayman 3 hoodlum havoc Murfy persona. The Billy West personality and voice, but with the appearance/clothes he had from Origins and Legends. Something to keep in mind whenever I write with Murfy.

This is a long post, So I'll put this with a read more for easier blog navigation.

Greenbottles are not fairies. They are a species of magically capable insects. This means Murfy is a bug with magical abilities.

One of these powers comes from the use of the magic stones with the face of a greenbottle on them. He’s the one that answers when you use those stones. He can pick up telepathically when Rayman uses them, and if he can’t be there in person, he will be able to pass on information into his thoughts/mind. He can’t use that ability if the stone isn’t activated, so he’s not going to constantly go into your brain.

Murfy is in his late 20's to early 30's. He likes to make jokes where he tries to act much older and will sometimes go full blown old man on Rayman. Highly exaggerated old man voice and calling himself "Uncle Murfy."

(If you play the gameboy advance version of Raving Rabbids, you actually see Murfy talk like this in the intro/tutorial level. I couldn’t watch their interactions without picturing him with a fully exaggerated old man Billy West voice, pretty much tired of all this shit.)

Murfy is an official member of the fairy council but not part of the higher ups that make the rules. He has his own personalized rank as Rayman’s Guide. He has tried to take this role seriously, but years of having to deal with both Rayman and Globox… he just gave up. He enjoys his role more now that he doesn’t take it seriously, and is now one of the bro's of the team. Murfy doesn’t get along with most of his ludivs co-workers, but he certainly tries. He’s usually the one that has to break up whenever a dispute goes on.

He does however have a place as part of the council when it involves putting criminals on trial. He is well versed in the laws of the Glade of Dreams. It's one of the rare instances where you see him serious about performing his duties and doesn’t make it into one big joke. He will often represent the council when trials are held. He also has the qualifications to perform marriages.

He’s the official keeper of the manual, which is considered a “major” magical artifact. The manual is sentient and communicates by a magic box that just pops up out of nowhere and everyone can see the dialogue from it. Murfy shares a love/hate relationship with this artifact and the teensies are actively trying to take it back from him. Only reason this hasn’t been successful is because intervention from Polokus telling the teensies to just “Learn to laugh.” about it. Polokus was the one that gave him the manual and made him keeper of it in the first place, much to the manual’s dismay. When Murfy is not using it, it stays within the vault along with other magical artifacts for safe keeping.

Murfy drips with sarcasm. This gets him in trouble often but he stopped caring about that ages ago. He is incredibly mindful of when the jokes hurt his friends and will lay off if they express it. He will also make some slightly not safe for work jokes, but he's incredibly careful about doing so in the presence of children. He tries not to, but has been guilty of slipping.

Murfy enjoys a lot of movies, video games, and comics. he knows plenty of references by heart because of it.

(Rayman 3 Hoodlum Havoc had him dropping lines like telling Rayman to go audition for spider man 2, and a joke reference around Star Wars. “QUICK! THE FORCE IS GROWING STRONGER IN ANDRE! IF WE DON'T STOP HIM SOON, HES GOING TO TELL EVERYONE HE’S YOUR FATHER!”)

Out of the canon trio (Rayman, Globox and of course Murfy himself) He’s the most tech savvy. His computer and smart phone are higher specs than what Rayman and Raymona use. When he's not using the computer to play games, he uses it for fairy council work or video calls with his friends.

Murfy owns a polaroid type camera. The ones where you take the picture, it gives you the photo and you can watch them develop. He really enjoys photography as a hobby. If you ask him to see a few of his pictures, it really makes him happy. His thing is photographing nature: plants and animal life. He will go on for hours over how he managed to get a specific shot, the animal or plant in question, where he found it, ect. If you hear him out through the whole thing it really makes Murfy’s day.

Murfy really enjoys being around kids that will seek him out with legitimate questions. He really likes being a teacher for the younger generation, at least the polite ones. The ones that seek him out asking questions purely in an attempt to tease him makes him annoyed.

He does not get along with ANY of the ludivs in the council. To the luvdivs, the feeling is mutual. He also doesn’t get along with many of the teensies there too. It gets especially heated after Andre’s raid on the heart of the world, given how little security the place has and the sheer importance of the heart of the world has on EVERYTHING.

His relationship with the actual Grand Minimus (the leader of teensies as whole, not just the tribe) is a little rocky, but they do try to get along. He’s one of the few people in the council that has a bit of Murfy’s respect, but he’s not going to admit that publicly. He respects Minimus’ wife more since she actually takes the duties as queen seriously and actually listens to Murfy’s concerns. It was the queen that gave the orders to increase security on the council after the events of Hoodlum Havoc.

If given the option of cooking for himself or fast food, He orders take out all the time. He will not reject if you offer him a meal you cooked yourself though.

While most of the time he doesn’t take stuff seriously and turns things into one big joke, if you ask him for his honest thoughts or opinions on something you did or made, he’s really good at giving constructive criticism.

While he’s mostly seen with the outfit he has from origins and legends, he still has his old outfit from Rayman 2 and 3. He really likes that outfit despite not wearing it as much as he used to. He will put that on when he has to attend things formally. If you mess with that outfit, such as spill your drink on it, he will begin plotting your downfall. He has a large selection of outfits back at his place, and one of these includes the old suit he wore to Raymona's graduation.

How Murfy’s brain works is like: when you present him a problem or puzzle, you will just see him ponder over it for a long time, his eyes darting aimlessly as he just surveys his surroundings. Guy gets lost in thought, he’s long and silent about it, but after a while he will come up with plans or ideas. Unlike Globox or Rayman, he prefers thinking things through rather than the use of on-the-fly plans.

Murfy is to Raymona what Globox is to Rayman. They are incredibly close with one another. Murfy knows Raymona can handle herself but in the event he sees her falter, he will become incredibly protective. He often receives friendly cheek smooches from her and in turn he engages with friendly flirting. It's their friendship quirk. Murfy doesn't do anything with Raymona that would make Rayman uncomfortable, jealous, or upset.

[gibbearish]

love when ppl defend the aggressive monetization of the internet with "what, do you just expect it to be free and them not make a profit???" like. yeah that would be really nice actually i would love that:)! thanks for asking

[surreal-duck]

some business to take care of

[northernfireart]

Bonus:

A thought that decided to randomly strike me and never left my head. Considering I completely ignore the canon dumb ass clothes change. To me he still was in thirteenths clothes.

[gabelew]

i don't draw ship art often,,, but even I'm not immune to office desk smooching aesthetics

and i already had this whole room designed so

[wikiangela]

wip wednesday

thanks for all the tags for sunday and tuesday! <3

started yet another wip 🙈 I was watching oth and heard one line and got inspired lol so here's some bucktommy morning cuddles, and istg this one will be short and fluffy and hopefully done soon 🤞 haha

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“Where are you going?” Tommy mumbles sleepily, eyes still closed, a small frown creasing his forehead. Buck chuckles quietly and can’t resist leaving another kiss on Tommy’s lips. It’s honestly adorable how his big, strong, hot firefighter boyfriend, who’s always so cool and collected, can get so grumpy in the morning without cuddles. He’s sure no one would believe him if he told them, but he likes that – he’s the only person who gets Tommy like this, who knows him like this. The thought makes his heart race and stomach flip, feeling as excited as at the very beginning of their relationship.

“Well, I was gonna go make you breakfast and then wake you up.” Buck says, fingers running through Tommy’s tangled curls. “You can go back to sleep, baby, and I’ll be right back.” he whispers, one of his hands starts drawing mindless shapes on Tommy’s back.

“Mm, no.” Tommy just responds, burying his face in Buck’s neck.

“You don’t want breakfast in bed?”

“I want you in bed.” Tommy says stubbornly, punctuated by a soft kiss to Buck’s neck and his arm around Buck’s waist tightening.

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[clowwwnbytes]

slay the princess pristine cut spoilers etc

i was brainstorming with buddies on discord and started thinking about damsel ch3 having the blade with her, already pointed at her heart, then just started thinking about the blade as a tool.

i think about the blade so much. a cold reminder of your mission in this world, something so tiny that represents a huge wall between you, your ability to be willing to understand others, to understand yourself.

if you bring it with you you've chosen to take a defensive stance against something and someone you don't understand, but it's so comforting, it gives you options, it gives you control over any situation given you don't underestimate the person standing in front of you. even when you don't want it, when you think you don't need it, it will come back to you. a nagging feeling. you're given the option to be distrustful even when you don't literally have it in you, it's what you've been taught is safety, it hangs over your head and dangles above your heart at all times.

and in damsel ch3 it goes from a tool given weight by the role you're supposed to play, to the same thing but looming over her this time. the expectations of what you're supposed to want and what's best for the people around you and what keeps you grounded, the narrator sang the same tune before, and he hurt her and he hurt you. he hurt himself and his humanity in the process. and now he's taken the backseat and is forced to see how messed up that is by having the smitten be the one pulling the strings of the construct, someone with a perspective so different, but one that ends up hurting everyone all the same, even if he doesn't intend it to do so.

everyone is forced to look at themselves in the mirror.

carrying that blade is suffocating for anyone.

and now im thinking about mr. "let's throw it out the window" contrarian, the only voice you can bring to her heart along with the hero, someone that refused to engage with the narrative and someone that is well aware that his perspective is annoying and unneeded for its purposes.

and then he meets the whole of her, and she tells him about how his courage is beautiful. he's the part of the long quiet that knowingly or not, is more willing to throw aside any kind of logic in order to understand a situation in a way the rest don't want to, and he's *now* realizing that his existence is an important aspect to have.

[satans-knitwear]

GUYYYYYYYS I MIGHT BE MEETING A LITTLE BABY PUPPY DOG TOMORROW.

[zecoritheweirdone]

so i saw this old-ish post about an au centering around a villain lewis and a hero arthur,,, and i. may have gotten attached to it,, dkdndkdjs. so i decided to make some edits + doodles based on it!! i also really wanna make a lil oneshot about it as well,, but uh... whether or not i actually follow through on that, we'll see,, skdjsojdks.

edit: good news, gang,, i wrote the fic!!

[violettierre]

My haitani father Shio headcanon is just a bit too funny cuz of how well it works that it sounds like a waste of perfect canon idea and crossover for both of wakui's works.

Aside from the obvious physical features very very obvious, identical eyes, nose, blonde eyebrows, rindou's face form, ran's hair color palette and (arguably) bonten hair style, blah blah i mean just look a the pictures below, you can also bring up any fact from either manga and add it to the hc and it fits in just SO WELL, i'll give the first example, The Haitanis are very obviously rich spoiled kids like have you seen their apartment? They have a fucking dj set, only rich kids with neglective powerful parents will have no problem paying for that, just saying, and even though i love him let's be real Shio is the type to be that parent, i mean cmon he's rich like crazy rich (filthy yakuza money yum yum) he tots would give his children WAY more than enough allowance so they can leave him alone, also the way they act, i've always the Haitanis were the type of kids that think they own the school cuz their dad is rich .

Nvm if this never becomes canon or both universes don't collide, it's just so entertaining to keep connecting the dots that were likely never there, like how Rindou is a heavy drinker cuz his father drank alot with the rest of the Yotsurugis and he tried to imitate him from a young age that it became an unhealthy habit or if you want to add more drama he only drinks cuz he looks up to his father but Shio favors Ran cuz he can posssibly succeed him (canon power complex) so Rindou resorted to drinking cuz it's the only thing like his dad that he can do. Heck yeah i made it angsty!!!

You can also add great context to his fear of Yakuza, picture this, when he was a kid he got up in the middle of night after hearing a loud noise to search for his parents and witnessed Shio (canon Yakuza) pew pew-ing some poeple and surrounded with scary men, that probably scarred him for life that he was so terrified when Kakucho got them interfering with some, OH OH something just came to mind, if he's the son of a yakuza yeah he didn't wanna clash with other yakuza families cuz it can end in a blood shed and risk his and his family's lives.

And i'm gonna add this one not very small detail and i swear i'll shut up (for now), i know it's just a stupid headcanon that is very far from becoming reality and i don't have to take it this deep but hear me out, why their last name is Haitani and not Yotsurugi like their dad, Shio is powerful and have many enemies right ? So he simply decided to protect his children and their identity by giving them another last name likely their mother's (yk like minato with naruto style plan ?) So Haitani is actually their mom's family name. I rest my case. Thank you for coming to my useless ted talk.

[katabay]

L'APPEL DU VIDE

okay so. jack! jack. what a collection of guys. the overlap between jack and the beanstalk and jack the giant killer, though. that sure is something! sometimes king arthur is there, which always takes me by surprise.

this. specifically. is an idea I've been kicking around. jack and the beanstalk is not a story I've ever enjoyed, as a kid it was probably my least favorite to read. as an adult, I was INTENSELY fascinated by reading j.g. ballard's the drowned giant. I think about it frequently, and somewhere during a re read of it, I ended up revisiting jack.

combining different versions of jack into one character is not a new concept, but it IS a fun one! the version I've been assembling together plays less with the fun elements of a jack story (and adjacent folklore stories), and focuses more on the potential for tragic elements with the addition of the usual grim and jagged narrative edges that I personally enjoy.

jack with the backstory of the devil and the three golden hairs, only jack doesn't find love, he's TIRED, all he wants to do is go home, but there isn't a home to go back to. what is the point of being born lucky if this is what it gets you? jack the giant killer, only he doesn't want to kill giants, jack who saw a body of a giant when he was a small child and cannot bring himself to do as a king commands. jack, who climbs up the beanstalk and stops halfway to look down. etc.

to go back to the drowned giant real quick, both to set the tone about jack seeing the body of a giant as a youth, and also because I've been haunted and obsessed with this excerpt of it ever since I read it:

J. G. Ballard, The Drowned Giant

anyway! this was originally like, a two illustration concept to get out of my system. however. I'm halfway through outlining a narrative. so. maybe it will also be several illustrations and also comic.

[roetrolls]

breaking: area man cant stop making dudes

Meant to do some halloween themed adopts and then immediately got ideas for this lycan fella. Reigning champ of a shifter fighting rink. I think he's probably morally bankrupt but in sort of a "i'm just here to party hard" way

Stupid doodles are mostly there to amuse myself. Don't consider them canon. For now...

Anywho. I can't stop imagining him with a scary lady boss/manager type person who arranges his fights so I may have to make her as well soon...

SORRY I KEEP MAKING GUYS WHO I DONT HAVE SOLID PLANS FOR YET, I AM REFILLING MY TUOY BOX <3

[feminist-cult-following]

I’ve already posted about this before but just imagine what hotd would be like if rhaenyra had ladies in waiting and other friends alongside alicent.

all of the angst as things begin to turn sour, the deep love hidden behind years of festering resentment and loathing. watching as they all grow up and grow apart before choosing sides. it would be fabulous and hbo should’ve done it cause this show already has too many men

[kastillia]

[shithowdy]

realized a drawing i'm doing rn is almost identically posed to one i did 8.5 years ago of a different oc, except the old drawing was instantly tainted by one of the players featured messaging me asking if i could take it down because their abusive, possessive rp partner saw it and got jealous of them "roleplaying behind their back" and i said "nah" and it became a whole Thing that i should have walked away from at that exact moment but didn't and the 6 months that followed contained some of the most truly condensed batshit i have ever witnessed in an rp community already well-known for its batshittery.

... anyway i love my friends. so happy to accidentally redeem the pose.

[fisheito]

emotional support wolf meets too-shy-to-live sneetah