#baron dante

[claraknight]

And so the adventure begins... again!

Looks like a certain crocodile interrupted Argonaut's exclusive interview of the mighty Baron Dante. 🤭

It's been a while since I've worked on a full fledged artwork, but I couldn't stay still with the recent news! Croc is among my favourite games ever, and it's incredible to see both Argonaut Games' revival and the return of these beloved characters- I can't wait to see what else they've got in store for us! Welcome back, everyone ♥

[emperorjon]

The insidious Baron Dante

[necrobatty]

Watched Thextera_ do a speedrun stream on Croc: Legend of the Gobbos the other day (The speedrun was very entertaining) and i was like yes, I'm gonna draw Baron Dante just for the fun of it

[svampira]

normalest friend group

[chateau-dilf]

Hits them with the birdification beam 💥

[vonlipvig]

he's got a list of names and theirs are in red underlined ❌❌❌

it's about time i sat down to doodle my versions of the characters from the count of monte cristo, so here's dantès and the three beloatheds lmao.

[oliversexireed77]

Marry me😩

[hughmanbean]

Titles I've Acquired

So I've decided to just jot down all of the titles I made some time ago in older posts and some more recent ones @jedipirateking helped with.

Danny:

First of Holy Name, The Reluctant King, The High Queen, Queen of the Cosmos

Bringer of Balance, Embodiment of Space, Mother of Wrath and Trickery, Siren of the Stars, The Great One, The Inevitable Authority

Danno, Little Badger

Ones we made on a recent post, focused on a joke. Not meant to signify Danny's Rank:

Avatar of Outta Here, Knight of Nope, Sir Scurry Scatter and Scram, God of Getaways, Emperor of the Bounce, Queen of Quick Exits, Prince of Poof, Zealot of Zoom, Duke of Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, and Dodge, The Great Gun It, Valet to Vamoose and Vacate, Baron von Bail, Scenechal of Scatter, Coup to Clamor and Climb.

Dante:

First of His Name, The Wrathful Prince, The Erratic Prince, Hate-Filled Union Born Anew, The Watchful and Filial Son

Dani/Ellie:

First of Her Name, The Mischievous Princess, The Wandering Princess, Mirror Turned Painting, A Futile Chase of Desire Remade, The Protective and Loyal Daughter

Vlad:

The Avaricious Duke, The High Queen's Rival, The Greedy Interloper, Creator of Shattered Mirrors, He Who Desires That Which Is Unattainable

Fruitloop.

Lady Gotham:

Home of Many, Perseverance in Protection, The Lady Who Commands the Knight, Bird Keeper

[playstationpark]

Baron Dante 'Croc: Legend Of The Gobbos' PlayStation

[klaineccfanficlibrary]

Hey! Do you know of an fics that are similar to Lord of the Manor by Divine Lady91? Please and thank you!! =D

Hello, I am assuming that you want the historical/lord/rich storyline? Here is the fic you mentioned, as others might want to see it. I've never read it myself, so have added it to my list!! Also below are the options for similar. ~Jen

Lord of the Manor by divinelady91

Blaine is the mysterious lord of an estate in the English countryside, rumored to have been inherited under mysterious circumstances. Announcing his intention to marry, he comes to the Hummel household, it is assumed, to claim the eldest Hummel child - Rachel - as his spouse. Once upon a time, her younger brother, Kurt, had been in love with Blaine, and he thought Blaine had feelings for him as well. Sure that those feelings have been thoroughly forgotten, and with his own intention to marry another man yet to be made known, Kurt helps to prepare his sister for the loveless match that awaits her. But what happens when Blaine arrives and tells them that they have all been mistaken?

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A Match Well Madeby MeriKG

AU. This is the dramatic tale of two pair of star-crossed lovers. Lord Kurt Hummel III, heir to the great Barony of Lima, is the single most eligible bachelor in her Majesty’s kingdom. Lady Rachel is an aspiring daughter of the Baron of a successful territory. Lord Kurt has no interest in marrying an appropriate Lady, but his father has finally put his foot down. When Lady Rachel, along with her half brother the minor lordling Blaine, arrives at Blackbird Castle in an attempt to ensnare the reluctant young Lord, sparks fly…in all the wrong directions.

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23 by felix-felicis33

Blaine doesn’t think he’ll ever fall in love, or get the chance to, but that all changes when he meets a man with blue eyes and a beautiful smile at a coffee shop. The world seems a brighter place when Kurt enters his life. The only problem is, he doesn’t belong here with Kurt. He belongs ninety-one years in the past, back in the year 1923.

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This Earthly Paradise by GlassParade

In Victorian England, Kurt Hummel is a struggling artist and contemporary of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, an organization of painters, poets, and critics who strive to turn the art establishment of England on its very head. His mentor, one Dante Gabriel Rossetti, has grown tired of Kurt’s reluctance to grow as an artist, and so enter Blaine Anderson, an artists’ model of Bohemian disposition and eye-catching good looks. Can he, using rather unorthodox methods, succeed where Rossetti has not?

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Haute Couture by LPBekka

In the year 1889 a young fashion designer by the name of Blaine Anderson is about to meet the love of his life, the most beautiful woman in Paris only to discover that she is not all she seems. Klaine, Warning: Lemon, Cross Dressing, AU

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Whether Near to Me or Far by drunkonwriting

In 1937, Kurt Hummel, son of a rich family, and Blaine Anderson, part of the Hummel staff, have little in common beyond a shared education at Yale and a childhood friendship. The summer after their college graduation, Kurt and Blaine find themselves growing more and more attracted to each other. However, before they have a chance to be together, one night’s events and a chain of misunderstandings change their entire history and pulls them apart. As they struggle to find each other again, they’re hindered by war and the shadow of the events that ruined their lives. Klaine, Atonement!AU.

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Westerville Abbey Verse by @hkvoyage

Blaine is the second son of the earl of Westerville, and is considered the spare heir. After his 18th birthday, he attends the London Season to fulfill his duty of finding a wife. He soon realizes he is more attracted to the new footman. Kurt, who has just arrived at Westerville Abbey to work alongside his father, becomes equally as smitten with the earl’s youngest son. Will Blaine and Kurt be able to overcome their class differences in 1910s England? Will their forbidden love survive WW1? A Downton Abbey inspired historical Klaine AU.

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Gilded Cage by @canarian

In the winter of 1895, Blaine Anderson, the son of a wealthy doctor, and Kurt Hummel, the son of a middle class mechanic, cross paths at a luxury hotel in the quiet seaside town of St. Augustine, Florida. With everyone and everything working to keep them apart, can they find a way to be together?

[satoshi-mochida]

Croc: Legend of the Gobbos remaster announced for consoles, PC alongside Argonaut Games revival - Gematsu

Argonaut Games, a British game developer founded in 1982 by Jez San and closed down in October 2004, has announced its revival alongside a remastered version of Croc: Legend of the Gobbos due out for “all the current consoles” and PC in 2024.

Known for titles like Starglider, Starglider 2, Star Fox, Croc: Legend of the Gobbos, and Croc 2, Argonaut Games released its last game in 2004, and is now making a comeback as a boutique publisher with a planned slate of classic Argonauts Games intellectual property and “exciting new titles” for both current and retro game platforms.

Its first title is the remastered version of Croc: Legend of the Gobbos, which first launched for the original PlayStation in September 1997. Here is an overview of the remastered release, via Argonaut Games:

Croc: Legend of the Gobbos, Argonaut’s 1997 multi-million-selling hit, features Croc, a lovable crocodile who embarks on a quest to rescue the Gobbos from the clutches of the evil Baron Dante. The game’s charm and creativity made it an instant classic, and the remaster promises to bring the beloved game to a new generation of gamers with enhanced high-definition graphics, updated modern control mechanics, and a nostalgic, fun, and authentic gameplay experience that will be sure to ignite the imagination of players and remind them why they fell in love with video games in the first place. Additionally, retro-gaming fans will be excited to learn that the remaster includes the Crocipedia, an extensive and meticulously curated digital museum containing long-lost development assets such as game design documents, concept art, animation tests, team member interviews, and much more. “I worked closely with Jez on the design and production of Starglider, Argonaut’s first big hit back in 1986, so to take up the mantle of relaunching Argonaut Games nearly four decades later brings me full circle, and we have further exciting announcements in the pipeline in the coming months,” said Argonaut Games co-CEO Gary Sheinwald in a press release. Argonaut Games co-CEO Mike Arkin added, “We wanted to honor the original game’s legacy while introducing it to a new audience. The HD remaster allows us to do just that. It’s been a labor of love for our team, and we can’t wait to share it with players on all the current consoles and PC later this year.” Original Argonaut Games founder Jez San said, “I’m thrilled to see the Argonaut name back after 20 years away. Argonaut was always about pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in gaming, and I’m excited to see how the relaunched Argonaut Games builds on that legacy, starting with the Croc: Legend of the Gobbos remaster.”

Watch the announcement teaser trailer for Croc: Legend of the Gobbos below. View the first screenshots at the gallery.

Announce Teaser Trailer

[bigasswritingmagnet]

Blood Will Out Ch 13 - Higgs and Vole and Gilgamesh, Too

Summary: When Agatha Sannikova learns she is, in fact, Agatha Heterodyne, she inadvertently kicks off a series of events that reopens old wounds, drags secrets into the light, and brings war to the doorstep of the all but defenseless Mechanicsburg. Saturnus struggles to crush his enemies with a town almost as broken as his body; Agatha, determined to undo the chaos she's unleashed, plunges into the depths of Castle Heterodyne.

Raised by a literal saint and the devil incarnate, Agatha - with an unleashed mind, a burning spark, and a band of very unexpected allies - will fight to do the unthinkable: be a good Heterodyne and a good person.

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He said more after that – Higgs saw his lips form the words Castle Wulfenbach and questor’s airship – but could not hear it over the roaring in his ears. The Baron’s son was in Castle Heterodyne, and he’d only gotten there because Higgs had brought the ship down to land so he could get inside the castle. 

“Kid,” Higgs interrupted, “what in the five flamin’ hells do you think yer doin’ here?”

“I told you, I’m stopping Tarvek!”

Vole snorted. “Wrong vay around, keed. I know for a fact dot de Sturmvoraus kid is vorking against his poppa. He nearly ran himself to death to get here to varn Lord Saturnus dot de army vuz coming.”

Gilgamesh – Higgs would bet his hat the boy went by Gil – scowled, his eyes dark.

“Yeah,” he said. “He’s very good at making you think he’s your friend. He can keep it up for years . But in the end—” Gil gritted his teeth. “ I trusted him too. And he used me to get at my – at information about the ruling families. I know there was a file on the Heterodynes, and I know he’s going to try to use whatever he learned to…do whatever it is he’s planning to do! But I’m going to stop him.”

“ How?” Vole demanded. “Look at hyu, hyu is just a leedle kid! Und running around here, by hyuself? Vut vuz hyu plan, hope hyu can get close enough to him dot ven der kestle crushes hyu, it gets hyu blood in his eyes?”

“Now, now,” the castle chided. “My security systems are programmed to perceive even non-Mechanicsburg children as non-threatening.” It chuckled, fondly. “That Dante. Under all that bloodthirsty mania, he really was a big softy.”

“I’m fifteen!” Gil insisted, affronted.

“Oh, well, watch your step, then.”

“I’m not leaving.” Gil’s face was pale, but determined. “If you drag me out, I’ll come back in, and if you try and lock me up, I’ll just escape again.”

“Again?” Higgs repeated.

“The castle dropped me in some padded cell with a bunch of baby toys.”

“Nonsense! No child has ever escaped the time out room!”

“I took a bunch of the toys apart and built a blowtorch to melt the lock,” Gil said with barely concealed pride.

“Well—!” the castle exclaimed, indignant.

“Alright,” Higgs said before this could escalate further. The boy was definitely a Spark, although considering his father, that wasn’t much of a surprise. “We’re already tryin’ to get two kids out of here alive. One more shouldn’t be that much harder. Just stick close and we’ll make sure you get out of here in one piece.”

And if we can’t, I sure hope someone can think of a way to explain it to your father that doesn’t end with him turning this town into a smoking crater.

They followed Agatha’s trail in relative silence. Only once they passed into a dead zone and Gil was safely distracted examining the paintings on the walls did Higgs speak.

“Last time we talked, you were pretty adamant about not servin’ the Heterodynes anymore.”

“Hy don’t ,” Vole snapped. “De line is rotten. But Lord Saturnus is not. He is still vun of de true Heterodynes, und ven he calls, Hy— I answer.”

“He call often?”

“No,” Vole admitted tightly. “Only now, to giff me an excuse der Baron vould believe. De odder times, he did not need to call me. I knew vut he needed me to do.”

There was a brief pause in conversation as they dodged floor spikes, a passing cloud of blood bats, and a fire-breathing cuckoo clock that nearly roasted Higgs’ hat.

“Vut did hyu tell de kestle?” Vole asked as Higgs rubbed soot off his hat’s ribbon. Gil, who had gotten a little too close to an oil painting of a drum, was wiggling his fingers in his ears, trying to get rid of the ringing. "It said it vuzn't expectink to see me for anodder seventy-sometink years."

“You got a hundred years ostracization for refusin’ to acknowledge the new Heterodyne,” Higgs said simply, and set the hat back on his head.

It was a good lie, Vole had to admit. A serious crime for a Jäger, but not so severe as to invoke the castle’s wrath. A long enough stint that the castle would be likely to forget about him before the end of it – and a believable punishment for the crime, too. A hundred years of forced separation from the pack would be a torment to any Jäger. 

Fortunately, Vole was not a Jäger, so he didn’t care.

Especially fortunate because Vole’s banishment was not a temporary one. No comfort could be taken in knowing that the loneliness was finite.

But he didn’t care, so it didn’t matter.

“Iz dot vut hyu told de pack?”

“Didn’t tell them anything. Partly so they wouldn’t try and hunt you down as soon as the masters weren’t lookin’. Partly because we didn’t know how they’d react to someone breakin’ the troth. Some of them figured it out anyway – or at least suspect. Lots of rumors out there about you.”

Vole sneered.

“Hyu should haff told dem,” he said. “Vould be good for dem to know how veak de troth really is.”

“Now you’re just tryin’ to pick a fight,” Higgs said amiably. Vole scowled at him. Before he had to think of something to say, Gil stopped and looked back at them.

“Do you hear that or is it just my ears ringing?”

“Hear what?”

“That buzzing noise.”

“I dun tink de castle has any killer bees,” Vole said. He looked at Higgs. “Unless dey added dot after I left?”

“Not like bees,” Gil said. “More electrical.” He cocked his head. “I think it might be coming from the walls.”

The castle began to scream. 

“ Don’t know how you thought that was going to end,” Carson said, shifting the little model clanks into new places on the map to reflect Sturmhalten’s latest push. “You’ve never won an argument against her in your life.”

“Who asked you?” Saturnus snapped, yanking a loose wire out of the ray gun he was repairing. He pointed a screwdriver at a group of model soldiers. “They’re trying to circle the town – Sturmvoraus is making his way to the north wall; von Blitzengaard to the south. With the proper angle you should be able to get the fire spitters to throw far enough to herd them back into place.”

“They’ll probably just back out of range and try again.”

“Do it anyway. It’ll keep them occupied while we bolster defences on both sides—“

Suddenly he slammed the screwdriver down on the table and slumped over. The nurse in the corner jumped to her feet, but Carson waved her back down. 

“ This isn’t sustainable!” Saturnus said. “We can’t beat them back; all we can do is hold them off!”

“Mechanicsburg has survived sieges before.”

“Yes, with the castle up and running! Half our defences are down from that alone, never mind the damage Wulfenbach spent years doing! Our only chance is to hope we can fend them off until help arrives, and who knows when that will be? We don’t even know if our message made it out of the valley before Sturmvoraus had the telegraph wires sabotaged! Klaus didn’t consider this serious enough to send more than a single questor, and it could be days before he gets suspicious enough to send someone to check on us.”

Oh, and didn’t it burn to say those words. Until help arrives. Needing Klaus to send someone to check on them, like a babysitter to an unruly child. To have their survival depend on an outsider. Mechanicsburg had never asked anyone’s help for anything – admittedly, because there was no one to ask, but even if they could have asked, they wouldn’t have!  

Saturnus rubbed his face and leaned back in his chair.

“Go to Gkika. Tell her to gather any Jägers who can run and get them ready to go.”

“You said there weren’t enough to put in the fight.”

“I’m not going to have them fight. As soon as Vole gets Agatha out of the castle, I want the Jägers to take her and Teodora east through the deep tunnels. Get them out of the valley and wire word to the Baron. Even if Mechanicsburg falls before Klaus gets here, Aaronev will have to waste time picking over our bones looking for her.”

“Miss Sannikova won’t like that,” Carson said. Saturnus smiled. There was absolutely no humor in it.

“Of course not. They’ll have to drag her out of here by force.” In a distant voice, almost to himself, he murmured, “She would make a fine Heterodyne.”

“My lord?”

Saturnus shook himself and gave Carson a rueful smile.

“Were it not for an accident of birth,” he said. Then he scowled. “Go on, get going. I gave you orders.”

Carson opened the door, stepped out into the street, and collapsed forward with a strangled cry. He landed on the ground in a heap. Saturnus rushed out after him as people came running, stooped the chair down to reach for him, wondering where the blood was, what had hit him—

The streetlights flickered and went out. Panicked shouts rose from the walls as the shields slumped in their holdings, leaving the defenders exposed. Water stopped running in the fountains; clocks stopped mid-tick; several of the wall-mounted weapons sputtered and died.

Everyone in Mechanicsburg suddenly became aware that, for their entire lives, they had been hearing a faint humming noise, one that had been so constant and consistent their brains had tuned it out before they were old enough to form memories.

And now it had stopped.

Saturnus rarely felt afraid, but now a cold wave swept over his mind, numbing his chest and the tips of his fingers. He did not need to guess what had happened.

The Heterodyne had killed the castle.

The first of the Geisterdamen breached the walls.

[lm-g1]

Just to show you that I'm still alive and well, here is a short dub that I did in celebration of the new Croc: Legend of the Gobbos remaster, from Argonaut Games! I've always felt that the late, great Tony Jay would have made for an amazing Baron Dante, so I took a crack at doing an impression of his voice. Enjoy!

Voices - Stuart A. Hutson aka LM-G1

[chateau-dilf]

Some more bird au sketches based on photos for the 2024 film + a concept for a masked Edmond based on no bird in particular to lean into the idea from the book that other characters struggle to identify where he's from.

[misstictart]

Hellooooo guess who also jumped into the Simpsons OCs train!! Apologies for the compression and the tons of text, don't hesitate to click on the file to see/read better. I was far to imagine that not only I'd get that much into the show, be motivated enough to create at least one OC and even less to get so hooked I was silly enough to write some lore to fit within the universe! But that's genuinely the most fun I've had in a while, so I hope you'll enjoy this verse as much as I do. ♥ I have other reference sheets to work on, but in the meantime, meet my main OC! A self insert who gradually turned into a self indulgent one, nothing like me, but with a story and writing I'm more satisfied with. I plan to post more info and art in the future, so keep in touch! (And don't hesitate to ask me anything, I love interactions!!) Thanks again to @ardate for giving me the good virus and a motivation I cruelly needed lately. That's definitely better than the nasty cold I've had these latest weeks. x) Also I want to mention I'm a baby fan as I've just got seriously into the show these latest weeks (watched most of the first 8 seasons + the Sideshow Bob episodes so far), so my apologies if some takes aren't 100% canon- feel free to send suggestions so I can respect the rhythm of the show as much as possible!

NB: The whole lore around "Baron Disaster" is made up by yours truly! It's a mix inspired by my favorite video game villains (Baron Dante, Dr Nefarious and Admiral Razorbeard in particular).

[claraknight]

5 Favourite Characters Poll (Tag Game)

Tagged by @gglitchshit thank yoooou!

Rules: make a poll with five of your all time favourite characters and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favourite.

(not putting Bowser because that's too easy of an answer and I know he'd win - so you'll have to deal with my fave underrated villains instead!!) I'll be tagging @ardate @slightly-gay-pogohammer @isi--peasy @madmedicinecat aaaand @starflethegreat!

Feel free to do this as wekk even if you aren't tagged btw! ♥