#and/or if they have the Crimson Curse

[angrybatart]

Another wip shot. Sharing it because I'm actually kinda proud of the expressions. (Gonna flesh out/finesse Junia's as I go.) Poses and anatomy, however, I need to work on.

Also I've always imagined the Flagellants being one of the tallest heroes in Darkest Dungeon. Sharing the same height as the Leper, if not taller.

I really need to sit down and make a character reference page for Azor some time.

[the-artist-grimm]

COTLTOBER DAY 6 - "Ritual"

You get what you give, you reap what you sow-

I just think using a dance to trace the blood runes for a ritual would be pretty~

[kottaniq]

It was love at first fright

[cluescorner]

Arlecchino's whole deal is unbelievable

Arlecchino: Huh I wonder what's causing my weird powers? I can't really worry about that right now tho, I've gotta become King and then kill my "Mother".

*Kills Clervie and "Mother"*

Arlecchino: Huh I wonder why I was able to defeat a Fatui Harbinger when I'm like 17 or so? I can't really worry about that right now tho, I've gotta be in jail and become a Harbinger.

*Is in jail for a while and becomes a Harbinger*

Arlecchino: Huh I wonder why I am-

Pierro: Hey what's up hello, anyways you're descended from the Crimson Moon Dynasty of Khaenri'ah. I'm sure that this is a lot for you to take in so-

Arlecchino: Ok.

Pierro: ...You're just cool with that?

Arlecchino: IDK maybe? I can't really worry about that at the moment, I'm a father now. This orphanage full of children I love (who also are child soldiers and are not allowed to leave or else I'll execute them except maybe now I'm just gonna wipe their memories IDK I'm morally complex) isn't gonna run itself.

*Runs the orphanage/spy recruitment initiative*

Me, the fucking player: WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU ARE KHAENRI'AN? WHY WASN'T THIS BROUGHT UP IN YOUR FUCKING QUEST?? OR ANYTHING ELSE????

Arlecchino, talking to me through my phone: I honestly don't know why you care, I'm too busy to give a shit. Anyways, I'm gonna go fight fate itself I guess. I'm sure that I don't share any thematic parallels with any other Khaenri'an characters (particularly as it relates to acting and family angst) and that I haven't made the idea of 'curses' on Khaenri'ans and what they entail even more complicated than they already were. See ya.

[tyrannuspitch]

i don't know why i'm thinking about crimson peak again, but i am, so here you go. some semi-coherent musings:

i've seen a lot of people react negatively to thomas and edith's confrontation in the climax (you tried to kill me / i did / you said you loved me / i do) because they see it as an attempt to "redeem" thomas, and they don't think it succeeds at that. but honestly i've never interpreted it that way?

what i've always taken away from it is more like... thomas just doesn't see the love and the violence as inherently contradictory. like, i'm not saying he currently wants to kill her, but he doesn't seem to see the gravity of the fact that he did. he was raised on violence. all his major interactions with the world have involved someone hurting him (parents; almost certainly boarding school), or him hurting someone else (wives). the only loving relationship he ever had before edith was with lucille, and that's deeply unhealthy on both sides... to the point that when he has this exchange, he's minutes away from being murdered by lucille.

lucille has her own speech about violence and love which frames the two as fundamentally intertwined, and her violence as coming from love, which is both tragic and horrifying in its own way. but i feel like thomas' thing isn't even... that. it's just like... stark coexistence. as an onlooker you naturally want to reconcile these two parts of him somehow, to fold the love into the violence or the violence into the love, but you can't. they're just both true at once. i can't quite put into words why, but i want to call it eerie.

(and i think this is part of the point of thomas disparaging edith's writing, too: he calls it sentimental and simplistic because it's not how he works. he's not just a villain, and he's not just a tragedy. he's both, and he remains both throughout the story. there isn't any comfortable conclusion to him. maybe he wasn't unsaveable, but he also wasn't saved.)

so. as i see it, it's not "he tried to kill her, but he loves her." it's: "he tried to kill her, and he loves her."

like, yes, of course, you're right, thomas' love of edith doesn't make the violence less real. but. it is also true that thomas' violence towards edith doesn't make the love less real. does that unsettle you? good.

[ali3nboyfriend]

had to crack open the bones of a google sheet and rearrange them just to add the Blood Hunter class to an auto-calculating DND character sheet

[sercphs]

Please observe my very very normal daughter. Girl. Person.

[neverthls]

Sorry for posting rancid bugs there's a change it might happen again...

[mayplantstarrwaters]

Made a collage of my favorite albums I have listened to this year in rainbow color order :>

[galacticspaceguy]

Crimson concept art

[artemisbarnowl]

I KNOW i am a huge baby but when will they invent a horror movie that doesnt rely on jump scares or gore???

[king-maven-calore]

Current read: Heartless Hunter by Kristen Ciccarelli. Or Crimson Moth in the spanish translation... who decided a name in english for the spanish version?? odd and mildly insulting.

A really bad synopsis by yours truly: Serpent and Dove type of story, where she is a witch and he is a witch hunter, but WAIT, bc the worldbuilding and the magic system are pretty good here as well, and the chemistry and interactions between two MCs is sizzling. Rune is a witch vigilante who rescues fellow witches under the name of "the Crimson Moth", but pretends to be a vapid aristocrat by day. Gideon is a working class, vicious witch hunter with some personal vendetta against Rune's kind. They know each other through Gideon's lil brother, who is Rune's bestie and also has a crush on her 🤭. Stuff happens, and mr. revolutionary general and our witchy deceiver, who think the worst of each other, start courting each other. Their interactions are so layered and filled with tension I'm eating this shit up 👌👌

Anyway, so far so good. I'm on chapter 13 and if I have to drop a crumb to get ya'll interested, here goes one of my favorite tropes written in exquisitely dramatic fashion 🫦(so far)

[kottaniq]

I'm bad at drawing legs

[torgawl]

okay but arlecchino's ultimate looks so much like plane of euthymia and acheron's ultimate. her idle and weapon resembles seele's animations... she's so hsr coded!!!

[universestreasures]

@prominenceprison​ (Time for Aichi to meet Percy LOL)

“Am I...awake...?” Aichi says groggily, his cerulean hues slowly adjusting to the dimly lit bedroom. His soul had been put to sleep by the vampire prince to keep him out of the way, the same thing Toshiki had done with Kai. The duo from the past didn’t need anyone standing in the way of their happiness, not when they had waited so long to return to each other. 

But then...how is it that he’s awake right now? The prince’s powers were surely stronger than anything the human could muster, and he doubts he was released from his slumber on purpose. The only thing he remembers was feeling...warm, the same kind of warmth he always associates with Kai. It’s what instantly always had allowed him to relax, the light that brought him out of his darkest moments. Could he be the reason he’s in control right now? Did Kai somehow manage to break free of the other spirit in his body, the one the young adult still did not know the name of?

Before he can even think to answer it, his eyes widen as he realizes the position he’s in. He was being held by his boyfriend, or...at least his body. With the darkness of the room, and with the other seemingly resting, he can’t tell if this is Kai or the other one. His cheeks flush for a moment out of embarrassment, unsure if he is the arms of his lover or the lover of the prince who soul dwells within his body now. He had picked up on the romantic connection between them in the moments before his neck was bitten.

A hand then moves to grace his throat, it being smooth to the touch. Shockingly, his wounds from being bitten by the other were...gone? The same appeared to be true from the wounds he sustained from Kai’s feedings too. How...How can that be? Even if he’s been asleep for a while, those wounds shouldn’t have been able to be fully gone! 

Little did he know that his body had changed, Aichi too focused on other things to notice the fact his teeth were now fanged and that he felt a lot physically stronger than before. His eyes dart around the room, taking in the sights before him. From what he can make out in the darkness, the room itself was huge. The only light he could see was from the moon that peered through the curtained windows. Through this light, however, he does manage to see something, or rather, someone laying on the ground beside a couch.

A face that he too saw on that rainy night before he lost control, the fact of a someone he thought was his friend and fellow classmate...

“G-Gaillard!? W-What is he doing here?! Wasn’t he trying to kill me before?!” Aichi thinks to himself, careful to not voice his thoughts outload lest he wake the sleeping body of his boyfriend. The other being in the room with them, especially when they were sleeping before, was...strange, to put it lightly. On top of that, didn’t the spirit inside of Kai...attack him? In order to protect Aichi or rather the prince?

Everything was getting more confusing by the minute. He had to try and figure something out. Maybe he can go find Kourin. She helped him out before and seemed to at least understand what was going on. With a plan in mind, he slowly gets out of the hold of the other, careful as to not wake him up. Thankfully, he’s had practice with this when trying to sneak out in the middle of the night to go study, even if Kai always eventually caught him red handed.

His feet land on the floor, but before he can make any steps towards the exit, his cerulean hues meet the rusted ones of the human sitting there. He can see something...different in them from before. It wasn’t how they looked like when they were in class together, but it definitely wasn’t anything like when they last met, either. It was...strange

“W-Why are you here...?” Aichi whispers, again trying to be careful. He has his guard up now, prepared to move out of the way if the other tried to attack him again. Though, something in the air was telling him he was safe in this room, safe in this situation. It was those instincts of his again, ones he still had yet to fully understand where because of the prince whose soul was currently sleeping and not in control of this body.

~

[trenchcrows]

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