#aterika'kaal

[humanmorph]

Lye „Lyke“ Lychen as a sacrifical altar (to Aterika’Kaal) (but he's also kind of the sacrifice)

my @secret-samol gift for @bronanlynch! for the Aterika’Kaal/Lyke prompt of „what if things had gone differently and Aterika'Kaal was still with Lyke“.

notes on this under the readmore!

AU

In this scenario Lyke would succeed in getting the heart of the Motherbeast in Episode 47 and while Alaway would notice & probably still call out to Aterika’Kaal the way he presumably did in canon, Lyke would be there and get to make a compelling case to Aterika’Kaal the likes of „If you stay with me I am going to feed you. I’ve taken care of you until now, I’ll keep doing that“ (argument supported by the fact he’s currently holding the heart of an incredibly powerful dead god). Aterika’kaal agrees and they barely escape through the Sanctum of the Stone Chorus portal. I think it's fun if Lyke then stays there after the hour described in the move is over, maybe knowing he can't convince Pickman & the others that what he's done is actually good, and fine, there's not even anything to worry about he has this totally handled, But yeah he then sets out from whereever in Sangfielle Aterika'Kaals domain is (Austin did say it was an actual place somewhere), and the rest of the Blackwick Group is left to wonder what the hell happened since Lyke just vanished! Alaway has possibly fucked off too after losing the heart. And them getting fired, the Carnival of Moted Light etc. would still happen (and I guess Chine would succeed at what they were doing since Lyke isn’t there?) and who knows if they’d take any action in finding Lyke after that! All that aside though, Lyke basically offers himself to feed on (through blood and/or energy) and to sustain that he keeps consuming(not literally eating) powerful objects/artifacts/resources and possibly eventually living things (I’d imagine he'd still take work as a „please deal with this weird shit for us“ person and when he has to kill a cursed beast or whatnot... might aswell feed Aterika'Kaal?) (What also plays into that decision, and is part of Lyke justifying this to himself, is that without him, Aterika’Kaal would become too powerful. So he aims to function as kind of a conduit & control the power intake so to speak. I think this probably doesn’t work for very long.) I think this eventually goes bad for him because it’s super taxing on his body and the whole deal kind of flips with Aterika’Kaal feeding/keeping HIM alive. He starts finding bodies in the domain again (alternatively, Aterika'Kaal gets better at hiding them because it knows Lyke doesn't particulary like it when it does that). Lyke probably gets stronger due to this power/magic wise, but also way more fragile (he's constantly anemic!). („I love you. I want us both to eat well.“ - Christopher Citro) („When I write of hunger I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.“ M.K. Fisher) Notes: I put some resources Lyke’s canonically had in-game + some extra stuff in this picture (the arrow is a reference to Marn’s epilogue, the bugs are bugs (with possibly sinister connotations. If you want them to have those, it’s optional) and the fur is from the Ravening Beast). Another detail I came up with I might aswell tell you because otherwise noone might ever know: the ring with the blue stone is a gift from Es. Sketch Notes: 1. Lyke turning his head to kiss a rose / exposing his neck was one of my very first ideas/sketches I made while working on this, and I liked it too much to not include it. 2. This is supposed to be Aterika'Kaal giving Lyke a blood transfusion but it rather looks like it's feeding on him instead...! I like how the relaxed pose turned out. 3. I wanted to draw something smaller in a simpler style to fill the big canvas I was drawing these on (even though now I put them in separate files anyways...). The day I drew this I saw a tweet about a medieval monks sketchbook, so I was still thinking about that. I didn't even plan to color it originally but I ended up getting invested, haha

Inspired mainly by these 3 quotes: „KEITH: I’m a walking- I am a shrine to Aterika’Kaal.“ (Sangfielle 12: The Secret Ledger of Roseroot Hall Pt. 4) „KEITH: There's a version of dealing with Aterika'Kaal that ends with Lyke being satisfied that he rehabilitated a god or at least it looks […] like what he thinks Aterika'Kaal would have been before the YVEs showed up. That's probably his main retirement path, but it also might kill him instead.” (Sangfielle 47: Wax, Iron, and Ichor Pt. 4) „AUSTIN: As you’re fading, the last thing that you do is make this blood sacrifice to Aterika’Kaal. Your own blood.“ (Sangfielle 52: Six Travelers: Lyke)

[mrmarielda]

oh this is going around again! aterika'kaal now lives on my desk, beside a jar of bees. it hasn't tried to eat me yet, so i think things are going well between us.

made an aterika'kaal and now i'm joining the ranks of junk mages who keep rose gods in a jar

[evegoldenwoods]

I'm not gonna have time to do a full drawing today, and I'm on a train which makes smooth lines really tricky, so here's a super rough concept of a lyke card, plus the seven different iterations of the hanged man that I own from different sets.

I think it's very funny that everyone went for the hanged man as their tarot card, but it is the one that Keith and Austin chose for lyke, so I felt obliged.

The hanged man is a great card, deeply ambiguous. It's sometimes read as a traitor, or a mystic, or a version of odin. The figure hangs in this deeply ambiguous point between passivity and active choice. It's meant to be unclear whether they have been placed in this situation and are trapped, or whether this is an active decision to reach enlightenment. I want to evoke all those elements with Lyke, and lean into the uncertainty of his choices, which is why there's a shrew skull in the lower left corner, for chine. Roses, naturally, for Aterika'kaal - and rose thorns binding lyke's foot to the beam. The ravening beast appears from behind his coat, and tombo in its bowl is between his hands, which are stained with spider ink. Tombo is drawn to deliberately echo one half of the "two fish as yin and yang" image that is so popular, which is extremely corny but I like the idea of it feeling like something out of balance, that there's a missing presence. I might try and add a few more details, like junk spilling out of lyke's pockets, and some element of fire somewhere. He has one eye closed as a deliberate evocation of odin, because doing something stupid in the pursuit of knowledge is very lyke.

The cards in the picture on the right are from seven different decks - centre is the thoth tarot deck, centre top is the little monsters deck, and then going clockwise it's the corrupted tarot deck by wyrmwood, the star spinner tarot, the botanica tarot, the crow tarot and the literary tarot. If you're curious about any of those decks I wrote up a big post on all of them that you can find on this blog. But it's fun to look at all of them together and see the consistencies as well as the variations.

[stupidstupidratcreatures]

i feel like a fool for thinking aterika'kaal was the most on-the-nose symbolic friends at the table was before listening to the parts of c/w with "integrity demands intimacy" and everything about righteousness in it

[windmillwizard]

happy secret samol! my gift is for @/sn0wglass who asked for my favourite dramatic moment featuring lyke and aterika'kaal. i picked the scene from lyke's six travellers episode where he finds alaway and aterika'kaal in the cabin and gives a blood sacrifice

[eclecticopposition]

aterika'kaal -> gur-sevraq

ready for palisade? we aren't

[wellnoe]

hi! would you mind if i got a tattoo inspired by your aterika'kaal design? the style+pose would be different, but the general concept of that little creature has possessed my brain :') no pressure ofc!

i do not mind at all!! go for it!!!

[funky-rhizomes-rpgs]

Rather Aterika'Kaal feeling

Spooky season approaches, can finally unmask 🎃🌿

[saltqueer]

today i finished the third hank of the sangfiyarn, knitted this gauge swatch, did gauge math, ripped this swatch out, cast on for the final balaclava, and knitted a couple rounds. the final number of stitches was three times as many as this, so keep in mind that the stripes that are showing up here really won't be visible in the final project. i get the impression people usually spin all the yarn for a project before they start it, but im impatient and needed a day off from holding up a drop spindle.

on the sangtober front, i just started episode 12, so im nearly two days ahead of my schedule. i always love relistening to shows. this time around ive been paying attention to all the ways lyke could have not ended up with aterika'kaal. such is actual play, so many things could have gone differently. ive also been tossing around the idea of doing an aterika'kaal themed sangfiyarn next october, so im paying lots of attention to the descriptions austin is giving (will i forget them before then? probably). i hadn't really noticed before that he says there are only a few flowers blooming at the one time, that kind of scuppers my plans a bit. i wanted to do either an assigned pooling sort of situation or a core spun yarn with a bunch of beehives on it, but i think a whole scarf with less than 10 "flowers" on it will look silly. i might come up with other plans, i might ignore that and proceed anyways, or i might do a few large beehives and some smaller ones. luckily nothing has been said to screw with my plans to spin in a bunch of spike beads to represent the thorns. I might also figure out how to make a slightly darker version of whatever i do for the stem color and do a subtle dyre owed skull bit of colorwork

[aldieb]

the part in perpetual oratorio where lye and duvall are arguing abt what to do with aterika'kaal is so fun btw. nothing else will ever grab me by the dick the way fjordcaleb did but i was detecting similar flavors

[zigzagzoom94]

@grand-magnificent

(keith voice) it's different!!!

[ao3feed-friendsatthetable]

Hibiscus Memories, Interrupted

by Sporian

A dream of a memory, or- Lyke cannot take it easy anymore.

Words: 2073, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Friends at the Table (Podcast)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: Other

Characters: Es (Friends at the Table), Lye "Lyke" Lychen, The Ravening Beast (Friends at the Table), Aterika'Kaal (Friends at the Table)

Relationships: Es/Lye "Lyke" Lychen, Aterika'Kaal & Lye "Lyke" Lychen

Additional Tags: Scars, Day At The Beach, Dreams vs. Reality, Pre-Canon, During Canon, pushing my boy down the stairs, spoilers up to episode 27, Sangfielle

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/44649652

[inventorpaige]

[windmillwizard]

[image description: A digital page of doodles. The first drawing is of a large Aterika'Kaal wrapping a vine around a shocked Lye Lychen's shoulder, saying "Feed me Lychen!" In the subsequent three doodles, Lye says "Hmm... Does it haaave to be human? Or mine? I'll do it either way! Just curious!' He looks curious and cheerful. The background is golden yellow. end ID]

if i had a nickel for every time i've encountered a bloodthirsty maneating plant in fiction who tricks some guy into feeding it i'd have 2 nickels. which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice